256 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



Vulnificufque chalybs vaftà fornace liquefcit. 

 Ingentem clypeum informant, unum omnia contra 

 Tela Latinorum : feptenofque orbibus orbes 

 Impediunt : alii ventofis follibus auras 

 Accipiunt, redduntque : alii ftridentia tingunt 

 JEra. lacu : gemit impofitis incudibus antrum. 

 Illi inter fefe multa vi brachia tollunt 

 In numerum, verfantque tenaci forcipe maflam. 



^Eneid. B. viii. L. 447—453. 



«« Not lefs vigilant, nor lefsdifpofed to induftry, 

 " at that early hour, the God who rules the fire, 

 ** uprofe from his foft couch, and addreffed him- 

 ** felf to his plaftic labours. 



** Not far from the Sicilian fhore, and Molhn 

 *^ Lipari, an illand arifes out of the deep, forming 



Swift as the word, (his orders to purfue,) 

 To the black labours of the forge they flew ; 

 Vaft heaps of fteel in the deep furnace roU'd, 

 And bubbling ftreams of brafs, and floods of melted gold. 



The brethren firft a glorious fliield prepare, 

 Capacious of the whole Rutulian war. 

 Some, orb in orb, the blazing buckfer frame ; 

 Some with huge bellows rouze the i^oaring flame : 

 Some in the ftream the hifling metals drown'd, 

 From vault to vault the thund'ring ftrokes rebound, 

 And the deep cave re-bellows to the found. 

 Exaft in time each ponderous hammer plays ; 

 In time their arms the giant brethren raife, 

 And turn the glowing mafs a thoufand ways. 



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