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[pg<br />

251]<br />

I scatter'd slaughter from my fatal<br />

bow.<br />

<strong>The</strong> chiefs you seek on yonder<br />

shore lie slain;<br />

Of all those heroes, two alone remain;<br />

Deiphobus, and Helenus the seer,<br />

Each now disabled by a hostile<br />

spear.<br />

Go then, successful, where thy soul<br />

inspires:<br />

This heart and hand shall second all<br />

thy fires:<br />

What with this arm I can, prepare to<br />

know,<br />

Till death for death be paid, and<br />

blow for blow.<br />

But 'tis not ours, with forces not our<br />

own<br />

To combat: strength is <strong>of</strong> the gods<br />

alone."

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