Several Occasions.
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Scarce reaches Earth: Thence tost in giddy rounds
Scarce reaches in nine Days th' infernal Bounds,
A Wall of Iron of stupendous height
Guards the dire Dungeons black with threefold night;
High o'er the Horrours of th' eternal Shade
The stedfast Base of Earth, and Seas is laid,
There in coercive durance Jove detains
The groaning Titans in afflictive Chains.
A Seat of Woe! remote from chearful Day,
Thro' Gulphs impassable, a boundless Way.
Scarce reaches in nine Days th' infernal Bounds,
A Wall of Iron of stupendous height
Guards the dire Dungeons black with threefold night;
High o'er the Horrours of th' eternal Shade
The stedfast Base of Earth, and Seas is laid,
There in coercive durance Jove detains
The groaning Titans in afflictive Chains.
A Seat of Woe! remote from chearful Day,
Thro' Gulphs impassable, a boundless Way.
Above these Realms, a brazen Structure stands
With brazen Portals, fram'd by Neptune's Hands;
Thro' Chaos to the Ocean's Base it swells,
There stern Ægeon with his Giants dwells;
Fierce Guards of Jove! from hence the Fountains rise
That wash the Earth, or wander through the Skies,
With brazen Portals, fram'd by Neptune's Hands;
Thro' Chaos to the Ocean's Base it swells,
There stern Ægeon with his Giants dwells;
Fierce Guards of Jove! from hence the Fountains rise
That wash the Earth, or wander through the Skies,
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