History, Pastoral and Desire: Andrew Marvell's Mower Poems

Brave Infant of Saguntum, cleare

Thy coming forth in that great yeare,

When the Prodigious Hannibal did crowne

His rage, with razing of your immortall Towne.

Thou, looking then about

E'er thou wert halfe got out,

Wise child, did'st hastily returne,

And mad'st thy Mothers wombe thine urne.

How summ'd a circle didst thou leave man-kind

Of deepest lore, could we the Center find!