Where shagg’d with thickening woods th’ Egæan mount
Impends. Then swathing an enormous stone
She placed it in the hands of Heaven’s huge son,
The ancient king of gods: that stone he snatch’d;
And in his ravening breast convey’d away:
Wretch! nor bethought him that the stone supplied
His own son’s place; survivor in its room,
Unconquer’d and unharm’d: the same, who soon
Subduing him with mightiness of arm,
Should drive him from his state, and reign himself