Poems on several occasions Author:Thomas Parnell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: H O M E R's BATTLE of the FROGS, fc? r. BOOK I. TO fill my rifing fong with facred fire, Ye tuneful Nine, ye fweet celeftial quire ! From ... more »Helicon's imbow'ring height repair, Attend my labours, and reward my pray'r. The dreadful toils of raging Mars I write, The fprings of conteft, and the fields of fight 5 How threat'ning Mice advanc'd with warlike grace And wag'd dire combats with the croaking race. Not louder tumults fhook Olympus' tow'rs, When earth-born giants dar'd immortal pow'rs. Thefe equal acts an equal glory claim, And thus the Mufe records the tale of fame. Once on a time, fatigu'd and out of breath, And juft efcap'd the ftretching claws of death, A gentle Moufe, whom cats purfu'd in vain, Fled fwift of-foot acrofs the neighb'ring plain, Hung o'er a brink, his eager thirft to cool, And dipt his whifkers in the ftanding pool; When near a courteous Frog advanc'd his head j And from the waters, hoarfe-refounding faid, What art thou, ftranger ? what the line you boaft ? What chance has caft thee panting on our coaft ?' With ftri« less