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Fleuron from 'Poems on Several Occasions' by William Broome, 2nd edition published in 1739

 

THE

LOVE

OF

JASON and MEDEA.

From the Third Book, Verse 743, of
Apollonius Rhodius.

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Νὺξ μὲν ἔπειτ' ἐπὶ γαῖαν ἄγεν κνέφας, &c.

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Now rising Shades a solemn Gloom display,
O'er the wide Earth, and o'er th' ethereal Way;
All Night the Sailor marks the Northern Team,
And Golden Circlet of Orion's Beam:

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