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By arms abroad, or slow disease at<br />

home:<br />

He climb'd his vessel, prodigal <strong>of</strong><br />

breath,<br />

And chose the certain glorious path<br />

to death.<br />

Beneath his ear the pointed arrow<br />

went;<br />

<strong>The</strong> soul came issuing at the narrow<br />

vent:<br />

His limbs, unnerved, drop useless<br />

on the ground,<br />

And everlasting darkness shades<br />

him round.<br />

Nor knew great Hector how his legions<br />

yield,<br />

(Wrapp'd in the cloud and tumult <strong>of</strong><br />

the field:)<br />

Wide on the left the force <strong>of</strong> Greece<br />

commands,<br />

And conquest hovers o'er th' Achaian<br />

bands;

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