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But friendly Juno shrouds
Her favourite heroes in a veil of clouds.

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A youth unshod amid the crowd appears,
Cause of thy ruin, subject of thy fears.

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The fate of others he had oft foreshown,
But fail'd, unhappy! to prevent his own.

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Where on an oak the fleece, suspended high,
A dragon guards with ever-watchful eye.

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By every woe fate destines me to bear,
And by these eyes, involv'd in night, I swear.

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Then like an arrow from th' elastic yew,
Swift o'er the foaming waves the vessel flew.

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Th' Etesian winds, while forty days they blow,
Refresh with balmy gales the soil below.

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Alcimeda embrac'd her son with tears,
Each breast was chill'd with sad presaging fears.

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

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Thus sees the clown, or thinks he can descry
The new moon breaking through a cloudy sky.

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Some bring dry wood, and some in order spread
Soft leaves and herbage for a spacious bed.

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Her eyes to earth she bends with modest grace,
And heaven in smiles is open'd on her face.

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Boughs bend with fruit, Earth from her bosom pours
Herbs ever green, and voluntary flow'rs.

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The gallant band beheld with wondering eyes,
Fierce as Jove's fiery bolt, the radiant prize.

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Turn'd from the murderous scene aside distress'd,
And veil'd her guilty face beneath her vest.

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His corse the bright-arm'd heroes thrice surround,
And raise in seemly form the hallow'd mound.

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With rage impetuous forth the monsters came,
And from their nostrils issued streams of flame...

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But adverse soon they meet, with rage they glow,
Like bulls fierce fighting for some favourite cow.

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On Argo's keel the impetuous torrent pours,
Which rais'd the ship above the rocks so high,
She seem'd sublimely sailing in the sky.

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Haste, royal mother, to your native tow'rs,
Pass with your handmaids there the peaceful hours.
Forebode not here calamities to come...

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But Lynceus stands renown'd for piercing sight:
So keen his beam, that ancient fables tell,
He saw, thro' earth, the wondrous depths of hell.

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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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Sudden, the vessel, as she sail'd along,
Spoke, wondrous portent! as with human tongue:
Her sturdy keel of Dodonean oak,
By Pallas vocal made, prophetic spoke.

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The salt-sea spray in clouds began to rise;
Old ocean thunder'd; the cerulean skies
Rebellow'd loudly with the fearful din;
The caves below remurmur'd from within.

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A hideous dragon of enormous size
Turns all around his circumspective eyes:
O'er the bright spoil the strictest watch he keeps;
He never slumbers, and he never sleeps.

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They who to prostrate suppliants lend an ear,
The laws of hospitable Jove revere.
All-present he hath listen'd to our pray'r,
And sinking sav'd us with a parent's care.

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When, lo! a Halcyon, of cerulean hue,
O'er the fair head of slumbering Jason flew,
In airy circles, wondrous to behold,
And, screaming loud, the ceasing storm foretold.

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With Chiron came Chariclo to the shore;
The young Achilles in her arms she bore.
Peleus, his sire, with secret pleasure smil'd,
As high in air she rais'd the royal child.

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Whene'er he skimm'd along the watery plain,
With feet unbath'd he swept the raging main,
Scarce brush'd the surface of the briny dew,
And light along the liquid level flew.

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The mother, starting from her bed of rest,
Fears for her babe reclining on her breast,
And closely clasping to her fondling arms,
Protects her trembling infant from alarms.

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