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446 A Father's love and Mortal's agony

With an Immortal's patience blending:—Vain

The struggle—vain, against the coiling strain

And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp,

The Old Man's clench; the long envenomed chain

Rivets the living links,—the enormous Asp

Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.

CLXI.

Or view the Lord of the unerring bow,

The God of Life, and Poesy, and Light—