Canto

 1     1|         red.~But not from cruel snake more swiftly flies~The timid
 2     7|        infant hands the crested snake;~Their claws from tiger
 3     8|    restore:~For not the squalid snake of mottled stain,~Nor wild
 4    10|        Surveys amid the grass a snake unrolled,~Or where she smoothes
 5    13| Compassion into asp, or venomed snake.~What time she so her piteous
 6    14|        die the death of frog or snake.~ ~ XLVII~But after they
 7    28|     Rightly were prisoned lion, snake, and bear,~But ill whate'
 8    33|    paunch; in many a fold,~Like snake's, their long and knotted
 9    39|   chanced on fell and poisonous snake to tread,~Which, in the
10    42|        slippery line the horrid snake has seen,~That his young
11    42|   loathed him more than noisome snake;~He loved her, and such
12    42|     said; she shook a poisonous snake,~And now on this, now on
13    43|        founded by the Agenorean snake.~Here me of gentle line
14    43|         clump a passing ancient snake,~Amid the tangled stems
15    43|        law, the form of spotted snake.~ ~ XCIX~" `So sad it is
16    43|       the day wherein she was a snake,~Upon all others went the