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<strong>The</strong>ir martial fury in their wonder<br />

lost.<br />

Jove's bird on sounding pinions<br />

beat the skies;<br />

A bleeding serpent <strong>of</strong> enormous<br />

size,<br />

His talons truss'd; alive, and curling<br />

round,<br />

He stung the bird, whose throat received<br />

the wound:<br />

Mad with the smart, he drops the<br />

fatal prey,<br />

In airy circles wings his painful<br />

way,<br />

Floats on the winds, and rends the<br />

heaven with cries:<br />

Amidst the host the fallen serpent<br />

lies.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y, pale with terror, mark its<br />

spires unroll'd,<br />

And Jove's portent with beating<br />

hearts behold.

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