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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LORDS' MASQUE: FOUR STATUES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet's Biography
First Line: See, see, prometheus, four of these first dames
Last Line: Let orpheus deck thy hymn, since pray we must.
Subject(s): Statues
First Line: See, see, prometheus, four of these first dames
Last Line: Let orpheus deck thy hymn, since pray we must.
Subject(s): Statues
Entheus. See, see, Prometheus, four of these first dames
Which thou long since out of thy purchased flames,
Didst forge with heav'nly fire, as they were then
By Jove transformed to statues, so again
They suddenly appear by his command
At thy arrival. Lo, how fixed they stand;
So did Jove's wrath too long, but now at last,
It by degrees relents, and he hath placed
These statues, that we might his aid implore,
First for the life of these, and then for more.
Prom. Entheus, thy counsels are divine and just,
Let Orpheus deck thy hymn, since pray we must.
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