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Great Merion follows, and new<br />

shouts arise:<br />

Shields, helmets rattle, as the warriors<br />

close;<br />

And thick and heavy sounds the<br />

storm <strong>of</strong> blows.<br />

As through the shrilling vale, or<br />

mountain ground,<br />

<strong>The</strong> labours <strong>of</strong> the woodman's axe<br />

resound;<br />

Blows following blows are heard<br />

re-echoing wide,<br />

While crackling forests fall on<br />

every side:<br />

Thus echoed all the fields with loud<br />

alarms,<br />

So fell the warriors, and so rung<br />

their arms.<br />

Now great Sarpedon on the sandy<br />

shore,<br />

His heavenly form defaced with<br />

dust and gore,

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