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Rh Her middle part below, The stars in few, and faintly glow:

'Neath her hind feet, as rushing on his prey, The lordly greets the God of day, When out of Cancer, in his torrid car Borne high, he shoots his arrows from afar, Scorching the empty fields, and thirsty plain: Secures the barn the harvest's golden grain. Then murmur first with hollow sound and deep— Portentous warning—soon o'er ocean sweep Th’ Etesian winds. Black Neptune's bosom heaves: He frowns at first, and curbs his restless waves. But soon joins headlong in the desperate fray, Careering madly on the foaming spray. Give me a vessel broad, if doom'd to brave These wild winds’ fury, and the warring wave.

Next the broad back and sinewy limbs appear Of fam'd —dauntless charioteer— Who lash'd the untam’d coursers to the yoke, And scour'd the dusty plain with fervid spoke. Now round the pole he holds his swift career, While presses on his track the greater Bear. Far in the north his giant form begins, Reaching athwart the sky the distant Twins. The sacred upon his shoulder rests— To infant Jove she gave a mother's breasts,