The interval between these four contained A chariot triumphal on two wheels, 1096 Which by a Griffin’s neck came drawn along; 1097 And upward he extended both his wings Between the middle list and three and three, 1098 So that he injured none by cleaving it. So high they rose that they were lost to sight; His limbs were gold, so far as he was bird, And white the others with vermilion mingled. Not only Rome with no such splendid car E’er gladdened Africanus, or Augustus, But poor to it that of the Sun would be⁠— 1099 That of the Sun, which swerving was burnt up At the importunate orison of Earth, When Jove was so mysteriously just. 1100 Three maidens at the right wheel in a circle 1101 Came onward dancing; one so very red That in the fire she hardly had been noted.