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Weak was his pace, but dauntless<br />

was his heart.<br />

Divine compassion touch'd Patroclus'<br />

breast,<br />

Who, sighing, thus his bleeding<br />

friend address'd:<br />

"Ah, hapless leaders <strong>of</strong> the Grecian<br />

host!<br />

Thus must ye perish on a barbarous<br />

coast?<br />

Is this your fate, to glut the dogs<br />

with gore,<br />

Far from your friends, and from<br />

your native shore?<br />

Say, great Eurypylus! shall Greece<br />

yet stand?<br />

Resists she yet the raging Hector's<br />

hand?<br />

Or are her heroes doom'd to die<br />

with shame,<br />

And this the period <strong>of</strong> our wars and<br />

fame?"

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