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[pg<br />

274]<br />

Let Ilion conquer, till the Achaian<br />

train<br />

Fly to their ships and Hellespont<br />

again:<br />

<strong>The</strong>n Greece shall breathe from<br />

toils." <strong>The</strong> godhead said;<br />

His will divine the son <strong>of</strong> Jove<br />

obey'd.<br />

Not half so swift the sailing falcon<br />

flies,<br />

That drives a turtle through the liquid<br />

skies,<br />

As Phoebus, shooting from the<br />

Idaean brow,<br />

Glides down the mountain to the<br />

plain below.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re Hector seated by the stream<br />

he sees,<br />

His sense returning with the coming<br />

breeze;<br />

Again his pulses beat, his spirits<br />

rise;

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