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age, wild aspect; His breast stood roundly forward, his broad back Seemed as of iron, such as might befit A vast Colossus sculptured. Full to view The muscles of his brawny shoulders stood, Like the round mountain-stones the torrent wave Has polished; from his neck and back hung down A lion's skin, held by its claws. Him first The red-haired youth addressed: Hail, stranger, hail, And say, what tribes unknown inhabit here! Take to the seas thy Hail: I ask it not, Who never saw before, or thee, or thine. Courage! thou seest not men that are unjust Or cruel. Courage shall I learn from thee! Thy heart is savage; thou art passion's slave. Such as I am thou seest; but land of thine I tread not. Come, these hospitable gifts Accept, and part in peace. No: not from thee. My gifts are yet in store. Say, may we drink Of this clear fount? Ask, when wan thirst has parched Thy lips. What present shall I give to thee? None. Stand before me as a man; lift high Thy brandished arms, and try, weak pugilist, Thy strength. But say, with whom shall I contend? Thou seest him here; nor in his art unskilled. Then what shall be the prize of him who wins? Or thou shalt be my slave, or I be thine. The crested birds so fight. Whether like birds Or lions, for no other prize fight we! He said: and sounded loud his hollow conch; The gaunt Bebrycian brethren, at the sound, With long lank hair, come flocking to the shade Of that vast plain. Then Castor hied, and called The hero chiefs from the Magnesian[94] ship. [93] Rocks which were supposed to strike one against the other, and so crush the ship that attempted to pass between. [94] So called, from the country where it was built. SKETCHES IN THE EXHIBITION, 1805. What various objects strike with various force, Achilles, Hebe, and Sir Watkin's horse! Here summer scenes, there Pentland's stormy ridge, Lords, ladies, Noah's ark, and Cranford bridge! Some that display the elegant design, The lucid colours, and the flowing line; Some that might make, alas! Walsh Porter[95] stare, And wonder how the devil they got there!
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