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92 Whirring the peacocks from the brake
 * With Argus wings arose,

Wild swans abandoned pool and lake
 * For climes beyond the snows.

From tree to tree the monkeys sprung,
 * Unharmed and unpursued,

As louder still the trumpets rung
 * And startled all the wood.

The porcupines and such small game
 * Unnoted fled at will,

The weasel only caught to tame
 * From fissures in the hill.

Slunk light the tiger from the bank,
 * But sudden turned to bay!

When he beheld the serried rank
 * That barred his tangled way.

Uprooting fig-trees on their path,
 * And trampling shrubs and flowers,

Wild elephants, in fear and wrath,
 * Burst through, like moving towers.