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And silver Trevets for the Meaner throng,
350 Instinct with subtile Life, self-moving leap'd along.
350 Instinct with subtile Life, self-moving leap'd along.
XXXVI.
Ye Pow'rs immortal, Male and Female hear,
The Royal Father said, and thither bend
Your sharpen'd Sight, where yonder Arms appear,
Say whether Nation shall the Gods befriend.
355 Speak you that purpose as auxiliars bold,
For Frogs or Mice to leave th' etherial Coasts;
Array'd and ardent for the Fight behold
The great, the warlike, the heroick Hosts!
So rang'd the Cloud-begotten Centaurs stood,
360 So frown'd on Phlegra's Plain, the Giant Earth-born Brood.
Ye Pow'rs immortal, Male and Female hear,
The Royal Father said, and thither bend
Your sharpen'd Sight, where yonder Arms appear,
Say whether Nation shall the Gods befriend.
355 Speak you that purpose as auxiliars bold,
For Frogs or Mice to leave th' etherial Coasts;
Array'd and ardent for the Fight behold
The great, the warlike, the heroick Hosts!
So rang'd the Cloud-begotten Centaurs stood,
360 So frown'd on Phlegra's Plain, the Giant Earth-born Brood.
XXXVII.
And thou dear Daughter of my lab'ring Brain,
Athenian Pallas, wilt thou rest secure,
And thou dear Daughter of my lab'ring Brain,
Athenian Pallas, wilt thou rest secure,
And
