According to Parsons:—
"Mid sighs, laments, and hollow howls of woe,
Which, loud resounding through the starless air,
Forced tears of pity from mine eyes at first." [42]
Canto V., line 84:—
LONGFELLOW.—"Fly through the air by their volition borne."
CARY.—"Cleave the air, wafted by their will along."
PARSONS.—"Sped ever onward by their wish alone." [43]
Canto XVII., line 42:—
LONGFELLOW.—"That he concede to us his stalwart shoulders."
CARY—"That to us he may vouchsafe
The aid of his strong shoulders."
PARSONS.—"And ask for us his shoulders' strong support." [44]
Canto XVII., line 25:—
LONGFELLOW.—
"His tail was wholly quivering in the void,
Contorting upwards the envenomed fork
That in the guise of scorpion armed its point."
CARY.—
"In the void
Glancing, his tail upturned its venomous fork,
With sting like scorpions armed."
PARSONS.—"In the void chasm his trembling tail he showed,
As up the envenomed, forked point he swung, Which, as in
scorpions, armed its tapering end." [45]
Canto V., line 51:—
LONGFELLOW.—"People whom the black air so castigates.
CARY.—"By the black air so scourged." [46]