And three cærulean snakes, on either side,
That to his neck tower’d up their crested pride,
Gleam’d like the rainbow, that from heaven above
Bears on the cloud to earth the will of Jove.
THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY OF HOMER, TRANSLATED BY WILLIAM SOTHEBY, ILLUSTRATED BY THE DESIGNS OF FLAXMAN LONDON, G. AND W. NiCOL, PALL-MALL, J. MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STRETT, 1834
