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Eastward with all thy force, to scour the plains; Search every bush and brake, and of our foes, If any be abroad, take strict account. Be it thy charge, Hadar, westward to watch ; Scan every hill, and permeate each vale, Nor leave one point unguarded, or desert, Lest who oppose us, find obverse ingress, And steal surreptious in forbidden lines. Azur and Zepho, arm in chief; and wheel, The first, in flaming circuit tow'rds the north ; The second, southward, in full force deploy, That none advene from thence and cause surprise. Follow the rest where I may lead the way, Or stand in serried phalanx, where, advanced, Our ensign, nitent, spreads its azure folds."

Quadrate, the legionary hosts sejoin, From center tow'rds eccentric fourfold wheel, Swifter than thought, and lighter than the air ; Part right and left, forward and adverse march, Timed to symphoneous sounds, celestial rung From temper'd alchemy, and lute and pipe, With rebeck, psalt'ry, such as seraphs tune, Varied to soft and loud, or quick, or slow, As art divine and heav'nly instinct lead. Thus moving, each within his sev'ral sphere, In beauteous order, and in bright array, They sweep the plains, they penetrate each glen; O'er rocks and mountains fly, search every gorge, Scout stream, and bush, and brake, and fount, and cave, And at each point place high cherubic guards, Who all night long, with sleepless eye, keep watch For many' a league dispersed around. A part,

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