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Jupiter (Canada) (search for this): book 1, poem 17
Addressed partially to Cynthia, partially to third party, and the Nereids CASSIOPEharbor town in Corcyra. TYNDARIDSCastor and Pollux, who appear as St. Elmo's fire, a good omen for sailors in distress. Mainly known as sons of Jupiter, but in the earliest legend, they were sons of Tyndareus, hence Tyndarids. DORISdaughter of Oceanus and Tethys and mother of the Nereids. Serves me right (I could leave her behind) I now address lonely sea-birds. Cassiope is never to be seen guiding my ship, and all my prayers fall on a deaf shore. Even the absent winds favor you, Cynthia: look how the breeze stirs up savage threats. Is there no chance of the squall calming? Will this tiny beach cover my corpse? But you, reform your rude complaining: night and unjust depths punish me enough. Could you recall my death with dry eyes, without my bones to hold to your breast? God damn him! who first prepared ship and sail and made a journey on the uninviting deep! Wasn't it easier to best his mist