A sound was heard. Such miracles display’d
The buckler’s field, with living blazonry
Resplendent: and those fearful snakes were streak’d
O’er their cærulean backs with streaks of jet:
And their jaws blacken’d with a jetty dye.
Wild from the forest, [259]herds of boars were there,
And lions, mutual-glaring; and in wrath
Leap’d on each other; and by troops they drove
Their onset: nor yet these nor those recoil’d,
Nor quaked in fear. Of both the backs uprose