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Then forth he bursts in high exulting mood,
And pours far wider than the seas his flood.
Th' expectant swains accept the boon he yields;
Their oars resound along the watery fields:
"While oft the shepherd—roused from noon-day sleep
Views fold and flock borne downward to the deep.

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