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This half-recover'd day shall Troy<br />

obtain?<br />

Shall Hector thunder at your ships<br />

again?<br />

Lo! still he vaunts, and threats the<br />

fleet with fires,<br />

While stern Achilles in his wrath<br />

retires.<br />

One hero's loss too tamely you deplore,<br />

Be still yourselves, and ye shall<br />

need no more.<br />

Oh yet, if glory any bosom warms,<br />

Brace on your firmest helms, and<br />

stand to arms:<br />

His strongest spear each valiant<br />

Grecian wield,<br />

Each valiant Grecian seize his<br />

broadest shield;<br />

Let to the weak the lighter arms belong,<br />

<strong>The</strong> ponderous targe be wielded by<br />

the strong.

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