Litchfield enquirer., 1844-10-24
! PANDORA, OR THE UNIVERSAL GIFT.
a Poetieal Description Of the first Women. and
Translation from Hesiod.

Translation from Hesiod.
70 3! Ell ISAAC JONES, JR.
Twas thus he spake. The cloud compelling Jove,
I On high Olympus cloudy tops above;
His words incensed like clarion sound "a
With dreadful peal, and thund'ring shake the
ground.
= Give ear, Prometheus, for thy subtil mind
At once ingenious punishinents can find
Because th0n hast, aom starry realms above
] stolen its fires, and fooled the mighty Jove;
Lot dire destruction seize tiny guilty soul,
And all thy race in endless troubles roll
Let such plague from high Olympus go,
That senselcss crowds may all embrace their woe,
{ With willing front, and yet submissive groan,
While dread misfortunes claim them as her own.
So spake the Sire Of Gods and men his mind, and
sent
Cor all the immortals smiled at once consent)
An artist famed, as ancient fables tell,
Dropping from heaven on an island fell.
There's no delay: 60, Vulcan so thy way,
And quickly this my just command obey;
Take humid earth, and let thy plastic hand
With river water blend at thy command,
A female shape; that every grace meet,
And in her looks each minging beauty sweet
From such materials let virgin bland,
Come blooming fresh from thy creating hand:
Excel in shape and look each goddess famed
That in the heavenly world has ere been named
Give her strong, sweetly speaking voice.
And fatt'riny speech to make the soul rejoice.
Do thou, famed Pallas, native of the skies
With each illustrions gift and power arise:
Learn her to work, and give her ample room,
To throw the quill through the ingenious loom;
TODD laborious work ofcrery kind
And show the native genius of her mind.
Let golden Venus born of oceans foa IL,
Who takes delight through human hearts to roam,
Adoyn her form with every beauty bright,
And spread aroand her head the beams Of light:
Endue her mind with strong tormenting fires, :,
All restless cares and all disturbed desires;
That she from anxious :oils may never rest,
And in her passions never once be blest.
Besides, my son, instead Of manners sweet,
Let self DESIRES and worrying troubles meet: ~
1nfuse her mind at once with savage spite,
That spurred illustrious Mars with rage to fight;
The morals foul that through his actions ran;
And marked at once the murderer from the man.
So spake the Sire: and all the powers above,
Smiling al once, applaud the speech Of JoSe.
The monarch reafs aloft his sovereign hand,
And they alert assent 10 his command,
1Vha shakes shsstarry heavens as they roll. 1855
And gilds unnumbered stars from pole to pole.
The Lemnian God. direct, virgin bland
Formed from the humid earth at Jovc's command :
Whose graceful looks at once excelled the famed,
And each bright goddess in Olympus named;
For blue eyed Pallas stor'd her mind with grace,
The mind that shone throughout her lovely face,
Polished by art, and every gift refined,
And taught her knowing soul in every kind
The graces mild, her beauteous form invest,
And robe the Virgin in the farest dress;
With far famed Peitho* each conspr'd to deck
And strung their glittering pearls around her neck
The golden seasons from the roseate bowers,
Circled her graceful head with vernal flowers.
TO crown the whole, Atheniaa' Pallas kind
At once adorned in Fart this female mind;
Ins ,ired her soul with all the pas sions sad,
Deceitful manners, and with morals bad,
Such as distinguished on the Grccian prince,
And every kindred being ever since.
At Jove's command, each God and Goddess nam'd,
Gave to this beauteous nymph present famed;
By Mercury called Pandora. first Of all.
And rightly named Pandora since her fall
Bethany, CT. A. D. 1897.
"The Goddess Of persuasion.