96. The Iron Age.
1.
VVHen Saturn dwelt in Italy,
The Golden Age begun:
But (Ah!) ere my nativity,
The Golden Age was done.
2.
I've read how he sometimes would go
And drink a pint of Wine
Pierides, or, The muses mount by Hugh Crompton, Gent.
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- Pierides, or, The muses mount by Hugh Crompton, Gent.
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- Crompton, Hugh, fl. 1657.
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- 1658.
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••ith old Japetus, where they two
Would tell a tale divine.
3.
They had their feasts of Love and Peace,
Knitting their hearts in Vno:
But now in stead of these, we be
Like Heroules and Iuno.
4.
T was after that Iove had bereaven
His Father of his Crown,
And had assum'd the power of Heaven
To be his only own.
5.
This revolution did produce
An happy Scene of powers;
And pleasure then was grown profuse:
I wish the case were ours.
6.
But look where Pride doth sway the Stage.
And Folly rules the Pagin,
Th' event will be the Iron Age,
As well you may imagine.