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11.
A GUERRA
SEE! through the lurid clouds Bellona drives
Her flaming chariot! and all heaven shakes
Beneath the crashing
wheels, the empyreal sky
Throughout its burning
vaults reverberates
The horrid sound, and
from the gates of hell
Avernus
echoes back the clang of war!
Swift from the rein the
snorting horses spring,
Like living whirlwinds
through the fiery mists
Of gathering tempest,
their uplifted hoofs
Impatient to the
combat; smoke and flame
Hiss from their
nostrils, their dishevelled manes
Like sudden meteors
blast the sultry air!
Hark! from the plain below, the clash of arms,
The cries of rage, the
wailing of the slain,
With dire confusion
wake the god of day;
And Echo, startled from
her silent couch,
Leaps into life, and
shrieks for blood and war!
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From hill to hill, from
sounding wood to vale,
The dreadful clamour like a torrent rolls
Its
angry tide of sound. Earth, heaven and hell
Rock with the horrid
roar, and thunder back
From tremulous marge to marge, from depth to height,
The jarring discord! . . .
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