"As when a lion from his caverned rock, At distance hears the bleatings of the flock, To seize his prey he springs, with hunger bold, But faithful shepherds had secured the fold; Defeated of his prize, he roars amain, Rends his hoarse throat, and terrifies the swain."
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Compare: — As, beat by tempests, and by famine bold, The prowling wolf attempts the nightly fold; Lodged in the guarded field beneath their dams, Safe from the savage, bleat the tender lambs; The monster meditates the fleecy brood; New howls with hunger, and now thirsts for blood; Roams round the fences that the prize contain, And madly rages at the flock in vain. — The Æneid of Virgil, tr. by Christopher Pitt (1740), IX. 76–83
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