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Page 45
... fly swiftly home from over the sea , and their noise travels with them to the shore ; at the moment , when the cormorants , whose element is the water , are sporting on the land , and the heron forsakes its home in the marsh , and flies ...
... fly swiftly home from over the sea , and their noise travels with them to the shore ; at the moment , when the cormorants , whose element is the water , are sporting on the land , and the heron forsakes its home in the marsh , and flies ...
Page 46
... fly lower and stretch themselves along the plain , and as she watches the sunset on her tower , the owl , all for nothing , keeps plying her weary task of song . Nisus is seen soaring in the clear sky , while Scylla suffers vengeance ...
... fly lower and stretch themselves along the plain , and as she watches the sunset on her tower , the owl , all for nothing , keeps plying her weary task of song . Nisus is seen soaring in the clear sky , while Scylla suffers vengeance ...
Page 47
... flies up into the air there is she , with her flying wings cutting scuddingly through the thin ether . Then the rooks , narrowing their throats , utter a clear note , three or four times over , and repeatedly in their nests on the tree ...
... flies up into the air there is she , with her flying wings cutting scuddingly through the thin ether . Then the rooks , narrowing their throats , utter a clear note , three or four times over , and repeatedly in their nests on the tree ...
Page 72
... fly ; on creeps disease and the gloom of age , and suffering sweeps us off , and the ruthless cruelty of death . Constantly there will be those whose weakly mould you would gladly exchange ; as constantly recruit your stock ; and that ...
... fly ; on creeps disease and the gloom of age , and suffering sweeps us off , and the ruthless cruelty of death . Constantly there will be those whose weakly mould you would gladly exchange ; as constantly recruit your stock ; and that ...
Page 73
... are they , with their ever ready lash circling in the air , bending forward to let the reins go ; on flies 1 The MS . is interrupted for three lines .— [ ED . ] the wheel , swift and hot as fire ; now BOOK III . 51–107 . 73.
... are they , with their ever ready lash circling in the air , bending forward to let the reins go ; on flies 1 The MS . is interrupted for three lines .— [ ED . ] the wheel , swift and hot as fire ; now BOOK III . 51–107 . 73.
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