CLX.

Or, turning to the Vatican, go see Laocoön's[526] torture dignifying pain-- A Father's love and Mortal's agony With an Immortal's patience blending:--Vain The struggle--vain, against the coiling strain And gripe, and deepening of the dragon's grasp, The Old Man's clench; the long envenomed chain[pv] Rivets the living links,--the enormous Asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.[pw]