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Rh For he is in the lists Contentious with the elements, whose dower First sprang him; for swift vultures to devour If he desists.

His breath of instant thirst Is warning of a creature matched with strife, To meet it as a bride, or let fall life On life's accursed.

No longer forth he bounds The lusty animal, afield to roam, But peering in Earth's entrails, where the gnome Strange themes propounds.