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Thus fell the [1]Titans from the Realms above,
Beneath the Thunders of Almighty Jove;
Then Earth impregnate, felt maternal Woes,
And shook thro' all her frame with teeming Throes:
Hence rose Typhoeus, a gigantic Birth,
O Monster sprung from Tartarus and Earth,
A Match for Gods in might! on high he spreads
From his huge Trunk an hundred Dragons Heads,
And from an hundred Mouths in vengeance flings
Envenom'd Foam, and darts an hundred Stings;
Horrour, Terrific Frowns from every Brow,
And like a Furnace his red Eye-balls glow;
Fires dart from every Crest, and as he turns
Keen Splendours flash, and all the Giant burns:
Whene'er he speaks, in echoing Thunders rise
An hundred Voices, and affright the Skies,
Beneath the Thunders of Almighty Jove;
Then Earth impregnate, felt maternal Woes,
And shook thro' all her frame with teeming Throes:
Hence rose Typhoeus, a gigantic Birth,
O Monster sprung from Tartarus and Earth,
A Match for Gods in might! on high he spreads
From his huge Trunk an hundred Dragons Heads,
And from an hundred Mouths in vengeance flings
Envenom'd Foam, and darts an hundred Stings;
Horrour, Terrific Frowns from every Brow,
And like a Furnace his red Eye-balls glow;
Fires dart from every Crest, and as he turns
Keen Splendours flash, and all the Giant burns:
Whene'er he speaks, in echoing Thunders rise
An hundred Voices, and affright the Skies,
Unutterably
- ↑ 820.
