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As I shall forge most envied arms,<br />

the gaze<br />

Of wondering ages, and the world's<br />

amaze!"<br />

Thus having said, the father <strong>of</strong> the<br />

fires<br />

To the black labours <strong>of</strong> his forge retires.<br />

Soon as he bade them blow, the bellows<br />

turn'd<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir iron mouths; and where the<br />

furnace burn'd,<br />

Resounding breathed: at once the<br />

blast expires,<br />

And twenty forges catch at once the<br />

fires;<br />

Just as the god directs, now loud,<br />

now low,<br />

<strong>The</strong>y raise a tempest, or they gently<br />

blow;<br />

In hissing flames huge silver bars<br />

are roll'd,

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