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Remote, Medea's fair attendants moan,
Cling round their queen, and groan return for groan.
As when a nest, surcharg'd with callow young,
Falls from the lofty cliff to which it clung,
Th' unfeather'd brood by shrillest cries attest
Their far-flown mother, and their ruin'd nest:
As on the banks Pactolus' streams bedew,
Melodious swans their dying notes renew;
The rivers, gliding the rich vales among,
Bear on their silver streams the soothing song.

Apollonius of Rhodes
When hence your destin'd voyage ye pursue,
Two rocks will rise, tremendous to the view,
Just in the entrance of the watery waste,
Which never mortal yet in safety past:
Not firmly fix'd; for oft with hideous shock
Adverse they meet, and rock encounters rock:
The boiling billows dash their airy brow,
Loud thundering round the ragged shore below.

Apollonius of Rhodes
With a parting kiss her bed she press'd,
Clung round each door, and e'n the walls caress'd.
A lock she tore of loosely-flowing hair,
And safe consign'd it to her mother's care,
The sacred relick of her virgin-fame.

Apollonius of Rhodes
The nymph with joy
Sprung from the deep to kiss the charming boy.
Her left arm round his lovely neck she threw,
And with her right hand to the bottom drew.

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For, lo! descending sudden from the sky,
Round the pil'd banquet shrieking harpies fly.

Apollonius of Rhodes