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 Firm, and of fear unconscious, glancing With all the ardour of the deer Who knows his agile playmate near; Hope, fixed yet eager, was entrancing With high and earnest thoughts the pair: One passion ruled them both—to attain Full vengeance for dark Mytah slain.

Soon as the sun, with ardent ray Asserting from high heaven the day, Glowed on the forest's waving crests The warriors marked with throbbing breasts Each movement of th' unwary prey. As bees, that with the morning light Disperse their troops in banded flight, Winging at will their odorous way From honeyed flower to flower; so they. For various chase prepared, depart; Some to ascend with perilous art The gaunt stem of the tree, whose womb The squirrel makes his daily home; Some, with the flying spear arrayed, To rove at will the forest glade, And, ambushed,8 pierce the kangaroo