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And taught to conquer, or to fall in<br />

fight:<br />

Adventurous combats and bold<br />

wars to wage,<br />

Employ'd our youth, and yet employs<br />

our age.<br />

And wilt thou thus desert the Trojan<br />

plain?<br />

And have whole streams <strong>of</strong> blood<br />

been spilt in vain?<br />

In such base sentence if thou couch<br />

thy fear,<br />

Speak it in whispers, lest a Greek<br />

should hear.<br />

Lives there a man so dead to fame,<br />

who dares<br />

To think such meanness, or the<br />

thought declares?<br />

And comes it even from him whose<br />

sovereign sway<br />

<strong>The</strong> banded legions <strong>of</strong> all Greece<br />

obey?

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