Than Pholoe to so mean a conqueror strike:So Venus wills it; 'neath her brazen yokeShe loves to couple forms and minds unlike,All for a heartless joke.For me sweet Love had forged a milder spell;But Myrtale still kept me her fond slave,More stormy she than the tempestuous swellThat crests Calabria's wave.My prayers were scant, my offerings few,While witless wisdom fool'd my mind;But now I trim my sails anew,And trace the course I left behind.For lo! the sire of heaven on high,By whose fierce bolts the clouds are riven,Today through an unclouded skyHis thundering steeds and car has driven.E'en now dull earth and wandering floods,And Atlas' limitary range,And Styx, and Taenarus' dark abodesAre reeling. He can lowliest change