Phoebus, with full revenge, from Tmolus flies, + 

Darts through the air, and cleaves the liquid skies; + 

Near Hellespont he lights, and treads the plains + 

Where great Laomedon sole monarch reigns; + 

Where, built between the two projecting strands, + 

To Panomphaean Jove an altar stands; + 

Here first aspiring thoughts the king employ + 

To found the lofty towers of future Troy. + 

The work, from schemes magnificent begun, + 

At vast expense, was slowly carried on; + 

Which Phoebus seeing, with the trident god, + 

Who rules the swelling surges with his nod, + 

Assuming each a mortal shape, combine, + 

At a set price, to finish his design. + 

The work was built, the king their price denies, + 

And his injustice backs with perjuries: + 

This Neptune could not brook, but drove the main, + 

A mighty deluge, o’er the Phrygian plain; + 

’Twas all a sea, the waters of the deep + 

From every vale the copious harvest sweep; + 

The briny billows overflow the soil, + 

Ravage the fields, and mock the ploughman’s toil. + 

Nor this appeased the god’s revengeful mind, + 

For still a greater plague remains behind; + 

A huge sea monster lodges on the sands, + 

And the king’s daughter for his prey demands. + 

To him, that saved the, damsel, was decreed + 

A set of horses of the sun’s fine breed; + 

But, when Alcides from the rock untied + 

The trembling fair, the ransom was denied. + 

He, in revenge, the new-built walls attack’d, + 

And the twice-perjured city bravely sack’d. + 

Telamon aided; and, in justice, shared + 

Part of the plunder as his due reward: + 

The princess, rescued late, with all her charms, + 

Hesione, was yielded to his arms: + 

For Peleus, with a goddess bride, was more + 

Proud of his spouse than of his birth before; + 

Grandsons to Jove there might be more than one, + 

But he the goddess had beloved alone. + 