[275] As falls a thunder-blasted oak.] Iliad xiv.:

As when Jove’s arm omnipotent an oak

Prostrates uprooted on the plain: a fume

Rises sulphureous from the riven trunk;

So fell the might of Hector, to the earth

Smitten at once. Down dropp’d his idle spear,

And with his helmet and his shield, himself

Also: loud thunder’d all his gorgeous arms.

Cowper.

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