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Instarr'd with gems and gold, bestrow<br />

the shore,<br />

With dust dishonour'd, and deform'd<br />

with gore.<br />

As the young olive, in some sylvan<br />

scene,<br />

Crown'd by fresh fountains with<br />

eternal green,<br />

Lifts the gay head, in snowy<br />

flowerets fair,<br />

And plays and dances to the gentle<br />

air;<br />

When lo! a whirlwind from high<br />

heaven invades<br />

<strong>The</strong> tender plant, and withers all its<br />

shades;<br />

It lies uprooted from its genial bed,<br />

A lovely ruin now defaced and<br />

dead:<br />

Thus young, thus beautiful, Euphorbus<br />

lay,

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