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 In shaggy Spoils here Theseus was beheld, And Perseus dreadful with Minerva's Shield: There great Alcides stooping with his Toil, Rests on his Club, and holds th' Hesperian Spoil. Here Orpheus sings; Trees moving to the Sound Start from their Roots, and form a Shade around: Amphion there the loud creating Lyre Strikes, and beholds a sudden Thebes aspire; Cythæron's Ecchoes answer'd to his Call, And half the Mountain roll'd into a Wall: There might you see the length'ning Spires ascend, The Domes swell up, the widening Arches bend, The growing Tow'rs like Exhalations rise, And the huge Columns heave into the Skies. The