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you nmy consider absent from this. The sub- 

 ject matter M-ill be, — the great A-."galonyx, the 

 monstrous lion of the Greeks; the cruel carni- 

 vorous animal of this Avestern world, who >vas 

 " huge as the frowning precipice; cruel as the 

 bloody panther, swift as the descending eagle, 

 and terrible as the angel of night I 



