Translation of "Darde" in English

Tel un affreux serpent, qui, nourri de poison, / sous la terre dormait dans la froide saison, / tout à coup reparaît, rayonnant de jeunesse, / s'étale avec orgueil, se roule, se redresse, / darde un triple aiguillon, et de son corps vermeil / allume les couleurs aux rayons du soleil.

As when a snake, that through the winter's cold / lay swoln and hidden in the ground from sight, / gorged with rank herbs, forth issues to the light, / and sleek with shining youth and newly drest, / wreathing its slippery volumes, towers upright / and, glorying, to the sunbeam rears its breast, / and darts a three-forked tongue, and points a flaming crest.