Show THE TYRANNY OF JOVE q-j q By The Honorable Lord Dumps s. s 1 is 1 T tJi 0 O what slaves 0 O what dupes I we poor men be to fate Like soldiers we act when were we're told We come and we go and we love and we hate We live and we die and we praise and we scold I As it pleases stern Jove to dictate He raises our hopes unattainable y t. t Then drops them so miserably low r Alike in the good and the bad and the amiable k e eThis This is his sport and we furnish funish the show 1 4 I. I f f Like a boy with a fly on a string 1 f j Who coaxes a chicken to swallow the thing t Then with laughter he roars and he howls MAs M- M As he pulls the fly back from the poor chickens chicken's s bo bowels He acts with mankind as they do at the fair p t t I 1 s When one prize is there offered to ten Each hopes for success but nine of the men l. l 1 A H fIl Are destined sorely to despair Jove holds his fat sides in with laughter and gl glee e l J. J O 0 what fools 0 O what fools yea ye poor mortals be y tr Jove pla plays s with our fortunes our love and our life j tC Alas I with the sweetheart the man and the wife r Like mud-made mud dolls in the hands of the boys 1 He plays the game out and we are his toys u v a aHe He mixes us up both single and double 1 And is mused all the while at us in our trouble f Its It's a shame its it's a shame were we're thus duped til we die t By this imp of a god of our fate And I swear Jove by the Eternal One that i if ever verton everon on high ig igI I shall rule oer o'er dominion or state d'- d' Ill I'll revenge wager war one that's so me mean n I j 4 And cast thee down no matter the cost And give some Milton the Second the theme a i oTo o- o To write thine own fall Joves Jove's Paradise Lost k I b t |