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Gustavus Vasa, and other poems

By W. S. Walker
Walker, William Sidney (1795-1846)

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Gustavus Uasa,
  
SONG FOR THE FOURTH BOOK OF GUSTAVUS VASA:
  
THE RIVER TICINUS:
  
JUPITER THUNDERING IN DEFENCE OF ROME:
  
FRAGMENT, IN IMITATION OF WALTER SCOTT.
  
THE EXILE:

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JUPITER THUNDERING IN DEFENCE OF ROME:

FROM THE TENTH BOOK.

High on the rock, the God, with furious look,
From side to side his burning thunder shook:
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Now here, now there, the scattering lightnings broke,
And the wide vallies flamed, and glowed with sulphurous smoke:
Contagious terror roll'd from plain to plain;
Cold Anio trembled in his watery reign;
And dazzled by the withering flames, o'eraw'd,
The chief shrunk back, and own'd the present God.
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