53. To Bassus

For Pelops or Andromache
Your style is quite unsuited,
Your " Colchian Queen" and " Niobe"
Are tragedy diluted.

You ought to find Deucalion
A subject sympathetic,
Or is not fire-doomed Phaethon
Still apter — and prophetic?
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