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''The goats shall bear to the fold their udders distended with milk: nor shall the herds be afraid of the greatest lions. The serpent shall die, and the herb that conceals poison shall die''.

, Ch. 11. &#42847;. 166 [sic]. The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, and the calf, and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them And the lion shall eat straw like the ox, And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the den of the cockatrice.

The thoughts that follow to the end of the Poem, are wonderfully elevated, and much above those general exclamations of Virgil which make the loftiest parts of his Pollio.

The reader needs only turn to the passages of Isaiah, as they are cited in the margins of the preceding Eclogue.