Forthwith upright he rears from off the Pool

Infinite goodness, grace and mercy shewn

Moors by his side under the Lee, while Night

The Pilot of some small night-founderd Skiff,

By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast [ 200 ]

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Sublimd with Mineral fury, aid the Winds, [ 235 ]

And high permission of all-ruling Heaven

And such appeard in hue, as when the force [ 230 ]

His mighty Stature; on each hand the flames

He lights, if it were Land that ever burnd

Of thundring Ætna, whose combustibl九_九_藏_書e

Of subterranean wind transports a Hill

That felt unusual weight, till on dry Land

Treble confusion, wrath and vengeance pourd. [ 220 ]

Leviathan, which God of all his works

That with reiterated crimes he might

Titanian, or Earth-born, that warrd on Jove,

On Man by him 九_九_藏_書seduct, but on himself

Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes:

Left him at large to his own dark designs,

How all his malice servd but to bring forth

Had risn or heavd his head, but that the will

Aloft, incumbent on the dusky Air

With fixed Anchor in his skaly rind

And feweld九_九_藏_書 entrals thence conceiving Fire,

With solid, as the Lake with liquid fire;

Evil to others, and enragd might see

Heap on himself damnation, while he sought [ 215 ]

Then with expanded wings he stears his flight [ 225 ]

Created hugest that swim th Ocean stream:

Chaind on the burning ｈｔtps://ｒｅａｄ.９９ｃsｗ.cｏmLake, nor ever thence [ 210 ]

Him haply slumbring on the Norway foam

Deeming some Island, oft, as Sea-men tell, [ 205 ]

Briareos or Typhon, whom the Den

Torn from Pelorus, or the shatterd side

Drivn backward slope thir pointing spires, and rowld

In billows, leave ith midst a horrid Vale.