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[pg<br />

225]<br />

<strong>The</strong> circling seas, alone absorbing<br />

all,<br />

Drink the dissolving fleeces as they<br />

fall:<br />

So from each side increased the<br />

stony rain,<br />

And the white ruin rises o'er the<br />

plain.<br />

Thus godlike Hector and his troops<br />

contend<br />

To force the ramparts, and the gates<br />

to rend:<br />

Nor Troy could conquer, nor the<br />

Greeks would yield,<br />

Till great Sarpedon tower'd amid<br />

the field;<br />

For mighty Jove inspired with martial<br />

flame<br />

His matchless son, and urged him<br />

on to fame.

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