To the City of Erythræa

Worshipful Earth, Giver of all things good!

Giver of even felicity; whose flood

The mind all-over steeps in honeydew;

That to some men dost infinite kindness shew,

To others that despise thee art a shrew,

And giv’st them gamester’s galls; who, once their main

Lost with an ill chance, fare like abjects slain.

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