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Listen, and appear to us
In name of great Oceanus,
By the earth-shaking Neptune’s mace,
And Tethys grave majestick pace;
By hoary Nereus wrincled look,
And the Carpathian wisards hook;
By scaly Tritons winding shell,
And old sooth-saying Glaucus spell;
By Leucothea’s lovely hands,
And her son that rules the strands;
By Thetis tinsel-slipper’d feet,
And the Songs of Sirens sweet;
By dead Parthenope’s dear tomb,
And fair Ligea’s golden comb,
Wherwith she sits on diamond rocks,
Sleeking her soft alluring locks;
By all the Nymphs that nightly dance
Upon thy streams with wily glance;
Rise, rise, and heave thy rosie head
From thy coral-pav’n bed,
And bridle in thy headlong wave,
Till thou our summons answered have:
Listen, and save!