Meridian waver’d, and declined the fray:
Thus onward Horus roll’d triumphantly!
The god, though angry with this vain pretence,
Forgave Meridian the unjust offence,—
On this condition—that he’d[207] ne’er again
Dispute his passage through the vaulted main.
Meridian thankfully received the boon,
And thus renounced all title to the throne.
VII.
Just as Meridian felt so dire dismay’d,