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An iron circle round the carcase<br />

grows.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n brave Laogonus resign'd his<br />

breath,<br />

Despatch'd by Merion to the shades<br />

<strong>of</strong> death:<br />

On Ida's holy hill he made abode,<br />

<strong>The</strong> priest <strong>of</strong> Jove, and honour'd<br />

like his god.<br />

Between the jaw and ear the javelin<br />

went;<br />

<strong>The</strong> soul, exhaling, issued at the<br />

vent.<br />

His spear Aeneas at the victor<br />

threw,<br />

Who stooping forward from the<br />

death withdrew;<br />

<strong>The</strong> lance hiss'd harmless o'er his<br />

covering shield,<br />

And trembling struck, and rooted in<br />

the field;

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