"For the more labours and fatigues he bore, Pale, pining want oppressed him still the more; New woes succeeded to the woes that past, And every day was darker than the last: And yet no crime had poor Paraebius wrought, Alas! he suffered for his father's fault: Who, when alone, and on the mountain's brow, With cruel axe he laid the forest low, Deaf to a doleful Hamadryad's prayer, The nymph neglected, and refused to spare, Though oft she urged this lamentable plea; "Pity, ah! pity my coeval tree, Where I so many blissful ages dwelt!" But his hard heart no soft compassion felt; The tree he felled; and for this foul disgrace The nymph ordained him woes, and all his race."
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