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A Portuguese fleet becomes the object of conflict between Roman gods.

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Reposèd there the Sire sublime and digne, vibrates whose hand the fierce Vulcanian ray, on seat of starry splendour crystalline, grand in his lofty gest of sovran sway: Respirèd from his brow such air divine, that to divine could change dull human clay; bearing the crown and sceptre rutilant, of clearer stone than clearest diamant.

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