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“See! thousand swimming Birds the silv’ery plain of Thetis cleave, and spurn her fume and fret, with bellied wings to seize the wind they strain, where his extremest mete Alcides set: Mount Abyla, and dight with tow’er and fane Ceita, they seize, ignoble Muhammad they oust: and thus our gen’eral Spain secure from Julian-craft, disloyal and impure.