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[pg<br />

447]<br />

In one sad day beheld the Stygian<br />

shades;<br />

Those by Apollo's silver bow were<br />

slain,<br />

<strong>The</strong>se, Cynthia's arrows stretch'd<br />

upon the plain:<br />

So was her pride chastised by wrath<br />

divine,<br />

Who match'd her own with bright<br />

Latona's line;<br />

But two the goddess, twelve the<br />

queen enjoy'd;<br />

Those boasted twelve, the avenging<br />

two destroy'd.<br />

Steep'd in their blood, and in the<br />

dust outspread,<br />

Nine days, neglected, lay exposed<br />

the dead;<br />

None by to weep them, to inhume<br />

them none;<br />

(For Jove had turn'd the nation all<br />

to stone.)

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