AMYNTAS.
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Thou knowest my address, and that my aim
But seldom wanders from the destined object.
I seized the juncture of his proper distance,
And launched my javelin; but the javelin erred;
It missed the wolf; and smote a neighbouring tree.
A fiercer onset now he meditated;
A baleful fire glared in his angry eye;
And with keen tusks he churned the whitened foam.
To flight I took me; for I had no arms;
And with as eager pace did he persue me.
Hear now an accident, by which my flight
Was interrupted, and my fear augmented.
The veil came loose, in which my hair was fastened;
And waving, as I ran precipitately,
It was entangled in a branch: I felt
That something stopped my course; but what it was
I did not recollect, through headlong fear.
But seldom wanders from the destined object.
I seized the juncture of his proper distance,
And launched my javelin; but the javelin erred;
It missed the wolf; and smote a neighbouring tree.
A fiercer onset now he meditated;
A baleful fire glared in his angry eye;
And with keen tusks he churned the whitened foam.
To flight I took me; for I had no arms;
And with as eager pace did he persue me.
Hear now an accident, by which my flight
Was interrupted, and my fear augmented.
The veil came loose, in which my hair was fastened;
And waving, as I ran precipitately,
It was entangled in a branch: I felt
That something stopped my course; but what it was
I did not recollect, through headlong fear.
I freed
