Oer many a Frozen, many a fierie Alpe, [ 620 ]

Of fierce extreams, extreams by change more fierce,

At certain revolutions all the damnd

Gorgons and Hydras, and Chimeras dire.

Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,

They ferry over this Lethean Sound

Another part in Squadrons and gross Bands, [ 570 ]

Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,

Four ways thir flying March, along the Banks

Forthwith his former state and being forgets, https://read.99csw.com[ 585 ]

Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,

Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards

Abominable, inutterable, and worse

Are brought: and feel by turns the bitter change

Lies dark and wilde, beat with perpetual storms

From Beds of raging Fire to starve in Ice [ 600 ]

Thir soft Ethereal warmth, and there to pine

Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems [ 590 ]

Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.

With s九_九_藏_書huddring horror pale, and eyes agast

Immovable, infixt, and frozen round,

Thither by harpy-footed Furies haild,

Both to and fro, thir sorrow to augment, [ 605 ]

Beyond this flood a frozen Continent

The Ford, and of it self the water flies

Burns frore, and cold performs th effect of Fire. [ 595 ]

Where Armies whole have sunk: the parching Air

Into the burning Lake thir baleful streams;

Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;

The九*九*藏*書 tempting stream, with one small drop to loose

And wish and struggle, as they pass, to reach

No rest: through many a dark and drearie Vaile

Farr off from these a slow and silent stream,

Created evil, for evil only good,

Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, [ 625 ]

Of Whirlwind and dire Hail, which on firm land

Lethe the River of Oblivion roules

Cocytus, namd of lamentation loud

That dismal world, if any Clime perhaps

Rocks九_九_藏_書, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and shades of death,

All in one moment, and so neer the brink;

They passd, and many a Region dolorous,

Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.

On bold adventure to discover wide

Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof who drinks,

Might yield them easier habitation, bend

Heard on the ruful stream; fierce Phlegeton [ 580 ]

In sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe,

A Universe of death, which God by curse

All tashttps://read.99csw.comte of living wight, as once it fled

Then Fables yet have feignd, or fear conceivd,

The lip of Tantalus. Thus roving on

Of four infernal Rivers that disgorge [ 575 ]

Where all life dies, death lives, and Nature breeds,

In confusd march forlorn, th adventrous Bands [ 615 ]

A gulf profound as that Serbonian Bog

But fate withstands, and to oppose th attempt [ 610 ]

Periods of time, thence hurried back to fire.

Viewd first thir lamentable lot, and found