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...shoulders with her golden locks Shaded, the daughter of the Centaur comes; Whom fair Chariclo, on a river's brink Swift-rolling, bore, and thence Ocyrrhoë nam'd. She not content her father's arts to know, The hidden secrets of the fates disclos'd. Now was her soul with fate-foretelling sounds Fill'd, and within her fiercely rag'd the god: The infant viewing;--“Grow, ” she said, “apace, “Health-bearer through the world. To thee shall oft “Expiring mortals owe returning life! “To thee 'tis given to render souls again “Back to their bodies! Once thou'lt dare the deed;-- “The angry god's forbidding flames, thy power “Further preventing:--and a bloodless corps “Heaven-born, thou ly'st;---but what thy body form'd “A god becomes, --resuscitated twice. “Thou too, my dearest and immortal sire! “To ages never-ending, born to live, “Shalt wish for death in vain; when writhing sad “From the dire serpent's venom in thy limbs, “By wounds instill'd. The pitying gods...

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