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<strong>The</strong>re Greece has strength: but this,<br />

this part o'erthrown,<br />

Her strength were vain; I dread for<br />

you alone:<br />

Here Hector rages like the force <strong>of</strong><br />

fire,<br />

Vaunts <strong>of</strong> his gods, and calls high<br />

Jove his sire:<br />

If yet some heavenly power your<br />

breast excite,<br />

Breathe in your hearts, and string<br />

your arms to fight,<br />

Greece yet may live, her threaten'd<br />

fleet maintain:<br />

And Hector's force, and Jove's own<br />

aid, be vain."<br />

<strong>The</strong>n with his sceptre, that the deep<br />

controls,<br />

He touch'd the chiefs, and steel'd<br />

their manly souls:<br />

Strength, not their own, the touch<br />

divine imparts,

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