...reach the promis'd shores of Italy, Or Tiber's flood, what flood soe'er it be." Scarce had he finish'd, when, with speckled pride, A serpent from the tomb began to glide; His hugy bulk on sev'n high volumes roll'd; Blue was his breadth of back, but streak '«I with scaly gold: Thus riding...

...reach the promis'd shores of Italy, Or Tiber's flood, what flood soe'er it be." Scarce had he finish'd, when, with speckled pride, A serpent from the tomb began to glide; His hugy bulk on sev'n high volumes roll'd; Blue was his breadth of back, but streak'd with scaly gold : Thus riding...

...reach the promis'd shores of Italy, Or Tiber's flood, what flood soe'er it be." Scarce had he finish'd, when, with speckled pride, A serpent from the tomb began to glide ; His hugy bulk on sev'n high volumes roll'd; Blue was his breadth of back, but streak'd with scaly gold: Thus riding...

...language of the Phoenician, and the " Fiery Serpent " of the passage before us : — " Scarce had he finished, when, with speckled pride, A serpent from the tomb began to glide ; Hie hugy bulk on seven high volumes rolled, Blue was hie breadth of back, but streaked with scaly...

...language of the Phoenician, and the " Fiery Serpent " of the passage before us : — "' Scarce had he finished, when, with speckled pride, A serpent from...gold. Thus, riding on his curls, he seemed to pass A rotting fire along, and singe the grass." f It is not wonderful, then, that fire-worship and serpent-worship...