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First Line: What hopest thou, goddess, when thy envious care
Last Line: Strike with a keener edge, and beam more dazzling light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico


WHAT hopest thou, Goddess, when thy envious care
Strews rocks and thorns to check my onward way?
That I should tremble at thy fickle sway?
Or toil in vain to catch thy flying hair?
With threats like these, awake the dastard fears
Of him who crouches to thy base controul:
Know, I could see, with calm intrepid soul,
The world in ruins and the falling spheres.
Nor am I new to dangers and alarms;
Long didst thou prove me in the doubtful fight;
From trying conflicts and opposing harms
I rose more valiant, and confirmed in might.
From falling hammers thus, the tempered arms
Strike with a keener edge, and beam more dazzling light.







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