"Here, in a covert near the reedy flood, A fell wild boar lay deep immersed in mud. With horrid tusks so dreadful he appeared, The fountain-nymphs the savage monster feared: No living wight in miry marsh or moor Ever saw so fierce, so horrible a boar."
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Compare: — A valley stood below; the common drain Of waters from above, and falling rain: The bottom was a moist and marshy ground, Whose edges were with bending oziers crowned: The knotty bulrush next in order stood, And all within of reeds a trembling wood. From hence the boar was roused, and sprung amain, Like lightning sudden, on the warrior train. — Ovid's Metamorphosis, VIII., "Meleager and Atalanta", tr. by John Dryden (1700), 93–100
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