And with its horrid skirl loud shrilled the barbarous bag-pipe,

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Showing such varied forms, that richly-decorate couch-cloth

Folded in strait embrace the bedding drapery-veilèd.

This when the Théssalan youths had eyed with eager inspection

Fulfilled, place they began to provide for venerate Godheads,

Even as Zephyrus' breath, seas couching placid at dawn-tide,

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Roughens, then stings and spurs the wavelets slantingly fretted—

Rising Aurora the while 'neath Sol the wanderer's threshold—