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Behind Aurora's wheels the rising sun / His voyage from his golden shrine begun, / With such ethereal speed, as if the Hours / Had caught him slumb'ring in her rosy bowers.
With lordly eye, that reach'd the world's extreme, / Methought he look'd, when, gliding on his beam, / That winged power approach'd that wheels his car / In its wide annual range from star to star, / Measuring vicissitude; till, now more near, / Methought these thrilling accents met my ear: -- / "New laws must be observed if mortals claim, / Spite of the lapse of time, eternal fame.