Mr. Cooke's Original Poems with Imitations and Translations of Several Select Passages of the Antients, In Four Parts: To which are added Proposals For perfecting the English Language |
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ACCIUS.
A Fragment of Accius, preserved in Cicero's second Book concerning the Nature of the Gods. A Shepherd, who never saw a Ship before, is represented as seeing, from a Mountain where he stood, the Vessel of the Argonauts.
What horrid Bulk is that before my Eyes,Which o'er the Deep with Noise and Vigour flys!
It turns the Whirlpools up, its Force so strong,
And drives the Billows as it rolls along.
The Ocean's Violence it fiercely braves,
Runs furious on, and throws about the Waves,
Swiftly impetuous in its Course, and loud,
Like the dire bursting of a show'ry Cloud,
Or like a Rock, forc'd by the Winds and Rain,
Now whirl'd aloft, then plung'd into the Main:
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And fiercely wage an elemental War,
Or Triton with his Trident has o'erthrown
His Den, and loosen'd from the Roots the Stone,
The rocky Fragment from the Bottom torn,
Is lifted up, and on the Surface borne.
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