[Pg 4]

This wretch to heaven, on earth forsook,

He was a vile contempt'ous thing,

Despised by peasant, prince and king;

A wand'ring vagrant, shun'd and curst,

For sending Æneus to the dust.

The aged father of his wife,

Base Ixion deprived of life!

Into a pit of burning fire

He cast poor Æneus to expire!—

And, while this cruel, murd'rous knave,

For sending Æneus to his grave,

From every circle under heaven

With scorn contemptuous, was driven,

This wretched outcast, here forsaken,

By Jupiter, was kindly taken

Into the realms above the skies,

And introduced to deities!

E'en at the tables of the gods

He set this scoundrel of the clods!

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