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less welcome master should this pest attain full devel- opment. Zeus, we are told, foresaw the danger : " Intuitive and vigilant and strong He thundered : instantaneous all around Earth reeled with horrible crash : the firmament Roared of high heaven, the ocean streams and seas, And uttermost caverns ! While the king in ivrath Uprose, beneath his everlasting feet Trembled Olympus : groaned tJie steadfast earth. From either side a burning radiance caught The darkly-rolling ocean, from the flash Of lightnings and the monster's darted flame, Hot thunderbolts, and blasts of fiery winds. Glowed earth, air, sea : the billows heaved on high Foamed round the shores, and dashed on every side Beneath the rush of gods. Concussion wild And unappeasable arose : aghast The gloomy monarch of th' infernal dead Trembled : the sub-Tartarean Titans heard E'en where they stood and Cronus in the midst ; They heard appalled the unextinguished rage Of tumult and the din of dreadful war. Now when the god, the fulness of his might Gathering at once, had grasped his radiant arms, The glowing thunderbolt and bickering flame, He from the summit of th' Olympian mount Leapt at a bound, and smote him : hissed at once The horrible monster's heads enormous, scorched In one conflagrant blaze. When thus the god Had quelled him, thunder-smitten, mangled, prone, He fell : beneath his weight earth groaning shook. Flame from the lightning-stricken prodigy Flashed 'mid the mountain hollows, rugged, dark, Where he fell smitten. Broad earth glowed intense From that unbounded vapour, and dissolved :