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Prepared to labour in the unequal<br />

fight:<br />

<strong>The</strong> war renews, mix'd shouts and<br />

groans arise;<br />

Tumultuous clamour mounts, and<br />

thickens in the skies.<br />

Fierce Ajax first the advancing host<br />

invades,<br />

And sends the brave Epicles to the<br />

shades,<br />

Sarpedon's friend. Across the warrior's<br />

way,<br />

Rent from the walls, a rocky fragment<br />

lay;<br />

In modern ages not the strongest<br />

swain<br />

Could heave the unwieldy burden<br />

from the plain:<br />

He poised, and swung it round;<br />

then toss'd on high,<br />

It flew with force, and labour'd up<br />

the sky;

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