“Sudden as hungry Wolves the Kids purloin,
Or Lambs, which haply some unheeding swain
Hath left to roam at large the mountains wild;
They, seeing, snatch them from beside the dams,
And rend incontinent the feeble prey.”
——“As Wolves that gorge
The prey yet panting, terrible in force,
When on the mountains wild they have devour’d
An antler’d Stag new-slain, with bloody jaws
Troop all at once to some clear fountain, there