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[pg<br />

294]<br />

This stern remembrance to his<br />

troops he gave:<br />

"Ye far-famed Myrmidons, ye<br />

fierce and brave!<br />

Think with what threats you dared<br />

the Trojan throng,<br />

Think what reproach these ears endured<br />

so long;<br />

'Stern son <strong>of</strong> Peleus, (thus ye used<br />

to say,<br />

While restless, raging, in your ships<br />

you lay)<br />

Oh nursed with gall, unknowing<br />

how to yield;<br />

Whose rage defrauds us <strong>of</strong> so<br />

famed a field:<br />

If that dire fury must for ever burn,<br />

What make we here? Return, ye<br />

chiefs, return!'<br />

Such were your words—Now, warriors!<br />

grieve no more,

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