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[pg<br />

299]<br />

From their deep beds he bids the<br />

rivers rise,<br />

And opens all the flood-gates <strong>of</strong> the<br />

skies:<br />

<strong>The</strong> impetuous torrents from their<br />

hills obey,<br />

Whole fields are drown'd, and<br />

mountains swept away;<br />

Loud roars the deluge till it meets<br />

the main;<br />

And trembling man sees all his labours<br />

vain!<br />

And now the chief (the foremost<br />

troops repell'd)<br />

Back to the ships his destined progress<br />

held,<br />

Bore down half Troy in his resistless<br />

way,<br />

And forced the routed ranks to<br />

stand the day.

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