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<strong>The</strong> Cretan saw, and shunn'd the<br />

brazen spear:<br />

Sent from an arm so strong, the<br />

missive wood<br />

Stuck deep in earth, and quiver'd<br />

where it stood.<br />

But OEnomas received the Cretan's<br />

stroke;<br />

<strong>The</strong> forceful spear his hollow corslet<br />

broke,<br />

It ripp'd his belly with a ghastly<br />

wound,<br />

And roll'd the smoking entrails on<br />

the ground.<br />

Stretch'd on the plain, he sobs away<br />

his breath,<br />

And, furious, grasps the bloody<br />

dust in death.<br />

<strong>The</strong> victor from his breast the<br />

weapon tears;<br />

His spoils he could not, for the<br />

shower <strong>of</strong> spears.

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