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That not one Trojan might be left<br />

alive,<br />

And not a Greek <strong>of</strong> all the race survive:<br />

Might only we the vast destruction<br />

shun,<br />

And only we destroy the accursed<br />

town!"<br />

Such conference held the chiefs;<br />

while on the strand<br />

Great Jove with conquest crown'd<br />

the Trojan band.<br />

Ajax no more the sounding storm<br />

sustain'd,<br />

So thick the darts an iron tempest<br />

rain'd:<br />

On his tired arm the weighty buckler<br />

hung;<br />

His hollow helm with falling<br />

javelins rung;<br />

His breath, in quick short pantings,<br />

comes and goes;

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