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And the cloven waters like a chasm of mountains / Stood, and received him in its mighty portal / And led him through the deep's untrampled fountains
He went in wonder through the path immortal / Of his great Mother and her humid reign / And groves profaned not by the step of mortal
Which sounded as he passed, and lakes which rain / Replenished not girt round by marble caves / ‘Wildered by the watery motion of the main
Half ‘wildered he beheld the bursting waves / Of every stream beneath the mighty earth / Phasis and Lycus which the... sand paves,
[And] The chasm where old Enipeus has its birth / And father Tyber and Anienas[? ] glow / And whence Caicus, Mysian stream, comes forth
And rock-resounding Hypanis, and thou / Eridanus who bearest like empire's sign / Two golden horns upon thy taurine brow
Thou than whom none of the streams divine / Through garden-fields and meads with fiercer power, / Burst in their tumult on the purple brine