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Straight to the tree his sanguine<br />

spires he roll'd,<br />

And curl'd around in many a winding<br />

fold;<br />

<strong>The</strong> topmost branch a mother-bird<br />

possess'd;<br />

Eight callow infants fill'd the mossy<br />

nest;<br />

Herself the ninth; the serpent, as he<br />

hung,<br />

Stretch'd his black jaws and crush'd<br />

the crying young;<br />

While hovering near, with miserable<br />

moan,<br />

<strong>The</strong> drooping mother wail'd her<br />

children gone.<br />

<strong>The</strong> mother last, as round the nest<br />

she flew,<br />

Seized by the beating wing, the<br />

monster slew;<br />

Nor long survived: to marble turn'd,<br />

he stands<br />

A lasting prodigy on Aulis' sands.

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