Note 270 — THE SHIELD OF HERCULES.
George Chapman translation
As rocks From some high mountain-top.]
Homer, Il. book xiii.
Then Hector led himself Right on: impetuous as a rolling rock Destructive: torn by torrent waters off From its old lodgment on the mountain’s brow, It bounds, it shoots away: the crashing wood Falls under it: impediment or check None stays its fury, till the level found At last, there overcome it rolls no more. Cowper.