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When sacred Orpheus, on the Stygian coast, / With notes divine deplored his consort lost; / Though round him perils grew in fell array, / And fates and furies stood to bar his way;
Not more adventurous was the attempt to move / The infernal powers with strains of heavenly love, / Than mine to bid the unwilling Muse explore / The wilderness of rude mechanic lore: