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<strong>The</strong> watery willows hiss before the<br />

fire.<br />

Now glow the waves, the fishes<br />

pant for breath,<br />

<strong>The</strong> eels lie twisting in the pangs <strong>of</strong><br />

death:<br />

Now flounce al<strong>of</strong>t, now dive the<br />

scaly fry,<br />

Or, gasping, turn their bellies to the<br />

sky.<br />

At length the river rear'd his languid<br />

head,<br />

And thus, short-panting, to the god<br />

he said:<br />

"Oh Vulcan! oh! what power resists<br />

thy might?<br />

I faint, I sink, unequal to the<br />

fight—<br />

I yield—Let Ilion fall; if fate decree—<br />

Ah—bend no more thy fiery arms<br />

on me!"

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