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At once consumes the dead, and<br />

dries the soil<br />

And the shrunk waters in their<br />

channel boil.<br />

As when autumnal Boreas sweeps<br />

the sky,<br />

And instant blows the water'd gardens<br />

dry:<br />

So look'd the field, so whiten'd was<br />

the ground,<br />

While Vulcan breathed the fiery<br />

blast around.<br />

Swift on the sedgy reeds the ruin<br />

preys;<br />

Along the margin winds the running<br />

blaze:<br />

<strong>The</strong> trees in flaming rows to ashes<br />

turn,<br />

<strong>The</strong> flowering lotos and the tamarisk<br />

burn,<br />

Broad elm, and cypress rising in a<br />

spire;

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