Several Occasions.
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At once in Silence sink the sleeping Gales,
The Mast [1]they drop, and furl the flagging Sails,
All night, all day, they ply the bending Oars,
Tow'rd Carpathus, and reach the rocky Shores;
Thence Crete they view, emerging from the Main,
The Queen of Isles, but Crete they view in vain,
There Talus, whirling with resistless Sway,
Rocks sheer uprent, repels them from the Bay:
A Giant, sprung from Giant-race, who took
Their Births from Entrails of the stubborn Oak;
Fierce Guard of Crete! by Jove Assistant giv'n
To [2]Legislators, stil'd the Sons of Heav'n:
To Mercy deaf, he thrice each Year explores
The trembling Isle, and strides from Shores to Shores:
A Form of living Brass! one part beneath
Alone he bears, a Path to let in Death,
The Mast [1]they drop, and furl the flagging Sails,
All night, all day, they ply the bending Oars,
Tow'rd Carpathus, and reach the rocky Shores;
Thence Crete they view, emerging from the Main,
The Queen of Isles, but Crete they view in vain,
There Talus, whirling with resistless Sway,
Rocks sheer uprent, repels them from the Bay:
A Giant, sprung from Giant-race, who took
Their Births from Entrails of the stubborn Oak;
Fierce Guard of Crete! by Jove Assistant giv'n
To [2]Legislators, stil'd the Sons of Heav'n:
To Mercy deaf, he thrice each Year explores
The trembling Isle, and strides from Shores to Shores:
A Form of living Brass! one part beneath
Alone he bears, a Path to let in Death,
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