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Chased from the foremost line, the<br />

Grecian train<br />

Now man the next, receding toward<br />

the main:<br />

Wedged in one body at the tents<br />

they stand,<br />

Wall'd round with sterns, a gloomy,<br />

desperate band.<br />

Now manly shame forbids the inglorious<br />

flight;<br />

Now fear itself confines them to the<br />

fight:<br />

Man courage breathes in man; but<br />

Nestor most<br />

(<strong>The</strong> sage preserver <strong>of</strong> the Grecian<br />

host)<br />

Exhorts, adjures, to guard these utmost<br />

shores;<br />

And by their parents, by themselves<br />

implores.<br />

"Oh friends! be men: your generous<br />

breasts inflame

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