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P. Ovidius Naso, Art of Love, Remedy of Love, Art of Beauty, Court of Love, History of Love, Amours (ed. various), Leander's Epistle to Hero (search)
; Where a wide-spreading main around us roars, Besprinkling with its foam our desert shores; Where winds and waves in endless wars engage, And high-wrought tides roll with eternal rage; Where ships far off their fearful courses steer, And no bold vessel ever ventures near. Should rising seas swell over ev'ry coast, Were mankind in a second deluge lost, Did only two of all the world survive, Only one man, one woman left alive, And should the gods that lot to us allow, Were I Deucalion, and my Pyrrha thou, Contentedly I should my fate embrace, And would not beg them to renew our race; All my most ardent wishes should implore, All I should ask from each indulgent pow'r, Would be to keep thee safe, and have no more. Your cruelty occasions all my smart, Your kindness could restore my bleeding heart. You work me to a storm, you make me calm; You give the wound, and can infuse the balm. Of you I boast, of you alone complain, My greatest pleasure and my greatest pain. Whene'er you grieve I can
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Arthur Golding), Book 1, line 348 (search)
ouds within hir chanels sanke. Then hils did rise above the waves that had them overflow, And as the waters did decrease the ground did seeme to grow. And after long and tedious time the trees did shew their tops All bare, save that upon the boughes the mud did hang in knops. The worlde restored was againe, which though Deucalion joyde Then to beholde: yet forbicause he saw the earth was voyde And silent like a wildernesse, with sad and weeping eyes And ruthfull voyce he then did speake to Pyrrha in this wise: O sister, O my loving spouse, O sielie woman left, As onely remnant of thy sexe that water hath bereft, Whome Nature first by right of birth hath linked to me fast In that we brothers children bene: and secondly the chast And stedfast bond of lawfull bed: and lastly now of all, The present perils of the time that latelye did befall. On all the Earth from East to West where Phebus shewes his face There is no moe but thou and I of all the mortall race. The Sea hath swallowe
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