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And the bold son <strong>of</strong> Pylaemenes<br />

slew.<br />

Harpalion had through Asia travell'd<br />

far,<br />

Following his martial father to the<br />

war:<br />

Through filial love he left his native<br />

shore,<br />

Never, ah, never to behold it more!<br />

His unsuccessful spear he chanced<br />

to fling<br />

Against the target <strong>of</strong> the Spartan<br />

king;<br />

Thus <strong>of</strong> his lance disarm'd, from<br />

death he flies,<br />

And turns around his apprehensive<br />

eyes.<br />

Him, through the hip transpiercing<br />

as he fled,<br />

<strong>The</strong> shaft <strong>of</strong> Merion mingled with<br />

the dead.<br />

Beneath the bone the glancing point<br />

descends,

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