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With iron bars and brazen hinges<br />

strong,<br />

On l<strong>of</strong>ty beams <strong>of</strong> solid timber<br />

hung:<br />

<strong>The</strong>n thundering through the planks<br />

with forceful sway,<br />

Drives the sharp rock; the solid<br />

beams give way,<br />

<strong>The</strong> folds are shatter'd; from the<br />

crackling door<br />

Leap the resounding bars, the flying<br />

hinges roar.<br />

Now rushing in, the furious chief<br />

appears,<br />

Gloomy as night! and shakes two<br />

shining spears: 228<br />

A dreadful gleam from his bright<br />

armour came,<br />

And from his eye-balls flash'd the<br />

living flame.<br />

He moves a god, resistless in his<br />

course,

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