By younger Saturn: he from mightier Jove, His own and Rhea's son, like measure found;

So Jove usurping reigned. These, first in Crete

And Ida known, thence on the snowy top
Of cold Olympus ruled the middle air,
Their highest heaven; or on the Delphian
cliff,

Or in Dodona, and through all the bounds
Of Doric land; or who with Saturn old
Fled over Adria to the Hesperian fields, 520
And o'er the Celtic roamed the utmost
Isles.

All these and more came flocking; but with looks

Downcast and damp; yet such wherein appeared

Obscure some glimpse of joy to have found

their Chief

Not in despair, to have found themselves

charmed

Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil. And now

Advanced in view they stand

front

- a horrid

Of dreadful length and dazzling arms, in guise

Of warriors old, with ordered spear and shield, Awaiting what command their mighty Chief

And strength, and art, are easily outdone
By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour
What in an age they, with incessant toil
And hands innumerable, scarce perform.
Nigh on the plain, in many cells prepared,
That underneath had veins of liquid fire 701
Sluiced from the lake, a second multitude
With wondrous art founded the massy ore,
Severing each kind, and scummed the bul-
lion-dross.

A third as soon had formed within the ground

A various mould, and from the boiling cells By strange conveyance filled each hollow

nook;

As in an organ, from one blast of wind, To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes.