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HE COMPARES HER TO A LAUREL, WHICH HE SUPPLICATES APOLLO TO DEFEND.
O Phoebus, if that fond desire remains, / Which fired thy breast near the Thessalian wave; / If those bright tresses, which such pleasure gave, / Through lapse of years thy memory not disdains; / From sluggish frosts, from rude inclement rains.