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Rh Each from his moorings, on they pour,

And three-toothed beak and back-drawn oar

Plough up in foam the marble floor.

Who saw had deemed that Cyclads, torn

From their firm roots, were onward borne

Colliding on the surge,

That hills with hills in conflict meet:

The mighty chiefs their tower-armed fleet

With such propulsion urge.

With hand or enginery they throw

Live darts ablaze with fiery tow:

The sea-god's verdant fields look red,

Incarnadined with heaps of dead.

Her native timbrel in her hand,

The queen to battle calls her band,

Infatuate!—nor perceives as yet

Two snakes behind with fangs a-whet.

Anubis and each monster strange

That Egypt's land reveres

'Gainst Neptune, Venus, Pallas range,

And shake their uncouth spears.

There where they battle, host and host,

Raves grisly Mars, in steel embossed:

The Furies frown on high:

With mantle rent glad Discord walks,

Bellona fierce behind her stalks,

Her scourge of crimson dye.

Then Actian Phœbus bends his bow:

Scared by that terror, flies the foe,

Arabia, Egypt, Ind:

The haughty dame in wild defeat

Is shaking out her loosened sheet,

And standing to the wind.

She, wanning o'er with death foreseen,

Through corpses flies, devoted queen,

By wave and Zephyr sped: