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 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.