A course, till tired before the dog she lay;

Who, stretched behind her, pants upon the plain,

Past power to kill, as she to get away.

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With his loll'd tongue he faintly licks his prey;

His warm breath blows her flix[148] up as she lies;

She, trembling, creeps upon the ground away,

And looks back to him with beseeching eyes.

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