The youthful Rhodos moves no tender thought, And beauteous Persa is at last forgot. Fond Clytie, scornâd, yet loved and sought thy bed, Evân then thy heart for other virgins bled. Leucothoe has all thy soul possessâd, And chased each rival passion from thy breast. To this bright nymph Eurynome gave birth, In the blessâd confines of the spicy earth. Excelling others, she herself beheld, By her own blooming daughter far excellâd. The sire was Orchamus, whose vast command, The seventh from Belus, ruled the Persian land.
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