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Then madly ramped the God-directed dance,
Where ruddy bodies, circling shapes of white,
Sped round so fast, so swiftly glanced their feet,
That ruddy figures turned on gleaming limbs;
And whirled on hairy legs the gleaming shapes,
While tangled raiment fluttering, intermixed
With floating hair, bright-hued, and many a spear,
Vine-clad, and harmless with fir-cone atop.
By glimpses seen, sliding in glittering curves,
Enamelled serpents mutely third the rout
Where growled the leopards to the panthers' snarl,
Or mumbled, over-rolled, and kicked at will.
Where ruddy bodies, circling shapes of white,
Sped round so fast, so swiftly glanced their feet,
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And whirled on hairy legs the gleaming shapes,
While tangled raiment fluttering, intermixed
With floating hair, bright-hued, and many a spear,
Vine-clad, and harmless with fir-cone atop.
By glimpses seen, sliding in glittering curves,
Enamelled serpents mutely third the rout
Where growled the leopards to the panthers' snarl,
Or mumbled, over-rolled, and kicked at will.
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