Kitap 2
When out at sea assists its course no more:
Time will your knowledge in our art improve,
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Give strength and vigour to your forming love.
The dreadful bull was but a calf when young;This and the following similes are taken from country affairs, which have an agreeable effect on this occasion, when the poet speaks of the tendency of every living thing to love.
The lofty oak but from an acorn sprung;
From narrow springs the noblest currents flow,
But swell their floods, and spread 'em as they go.
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Be conversant with love, no toils refuse,
And conquer all fatigues with frequent use:
Still let her hear your sighs, your passion view
And night and day the flying maid pursue.
Then pause awhile; by fallow fields we gain;
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A thirsty soil receives the welcome rain.
Phyllis was calm while with Demophoon bless'd,
His absence wounded most her raging breast:
Thus his chaste consort for Ulysses burn'd,
And Laodamia thus her absent husband mourn'd,
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With speed return, you're ruined by delays,
Some happy youth may soon supply your place.
When Sparta's prince was from his Helen gone,
