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[pg<br />

016]<br />

<strong>The</strong> undaunted guard <strong>of</strong> cloud-compelling<br />

Jove:<br />

When the bright partner <strong>of</strong> his awful<br />

reign,<br />

<strong>The</strong> warlike maid, and monarch <strong>of</strong><br />

the main,<br />

<strong>The</strong> traitor-gods, by mad ambition<br />

driven,<br />

Durst threat with chains the omnipotence<br />

<strong>of</strong> Heaven.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n, call'd by thee, the monster<br />

Titan came<br />

(Whom gods Briareus, men Ægeon<br />

name),<br />

Through wondering skies enormous<br />

stalk'd along;<br />

Not he that shakes the solid earth so<br />

strong:<br />

With giant-pride at Jove's high<br />

throne he stands,<br />

And brandish'd round him all his<br />

hundred hands:

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