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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: Glancing, his tail upturned its venomous fork,
With sting like scorpions armed."
PARSONS.--"In the void chasm his trembling tail he showed,
As up the envenomed, forked point he swung, Which, as in
scorpions, armed its tapering end."[45]
[45] "Nel vano tutta sue coda guizzava,
Torcendo in su la venenosa forca,
Che, a guisa di scorpion, la punta armava."
Canto V., line 51:--
LONGFELLOW.--"People whom the black air so castigates.
CARY.--"By the black air so scourged."[46]
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