Page:The Lusiad (Camões, tr. Mickle, 1791), Volume 2.djvu/125

 Full-gorged, and blackening, spreads, and moves, more slow, And waving trembles to the waves below. Thus when to shun the summer's sultry beam The thirsty heifer seeks the cooling stream, The eager horse-leech fixing on her lips, Her blood with ardent throat insatiate sips, Till the gorged glutton, swell'd beyond her size, Drops from her wounded hold, and bursting dies. So bursts the cloud, o'erloaded with its freight, And the dash'd ocean staggers with the weight. But say, ye sages, who can weigh the cause, And trace the secret springs of nature's laws, Say,