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Andone short monthendure the wintry main?
Few leagues removedwe wish our peaceful seat
When the ship tossesand the tempests beat:
Then well may this long stay provoke their tears
The tedious length of nine revolving years.
Not for their grief the Grecian host I blame;
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Expect the time to Troy's destruction given.
And try the faith of Chalcas and of heaven.
What pass'd at AulisGreece can witness bear[49] And all who live to breathe this Phrygian air.
Beside a fountain's sacred brink we raised
Our verdant altarsand the victims blazed:
'Twas where the plane-tree spread its shades around
The altars heaved; and from the crumbling ground
A mighty dragon shotof dire portent;
From Jove himself the dreadful sign was sent.
Straight to the tree his sanguine spires he roll'd
And curl'd around in many a winding fold;
The topmost branch a mother-bird possess'd;
Eight callow infants fill'd the mossy nest;
Herself the ninth; the serpentas he hung
Stretch'd his black jaws and crush'd the crying young;
While hovering nearwith miserable moan
The drooping mother wail'd her children gone.
The mother lastas round the nest she flew
Seized by the beating wingthe monster slewyilai:
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