Unkennell’d from the prisons, and the stews,

Pour in, all opening in their idol’s praise;

All, ardent, eye each wafture of her hand,

And, wide-expanding their voracious jaws,

Morsel on morsel swallow down unchew’d, 973

Untasted, through mad appetite for more;

Gorged to the throat, yet lean and ravenous still.

Sagacious all, to trace the smallest game,

And bold to seize the greatest. If (bless’d chance!)

Court-zephyrs sweetly breathe, they launch, they fly,