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<strong>The</strong> sinewy ankles bored, the feet<br />

he bound<br />

With thongs inserted through the<br />

double wound:<br />

Inevitable fate o'ertakes the deed;<br />

Doom'd by great Ajax' vengeful<br />

lance to bleed:<br />

It cleft the helmet's brazen cheeks<br />

in twain;<br />

<strong>The</strong> shatter'd crest and horse-hair<br />

strow the plain:<br />

With nerves relax'd he tumbles to<br />

the ground:<br />

<strong>The</strong> brain comes gushing through<br />

the ghastly wound:<br />

He drops Patroclus' foot, and o'er<br />

him spread,<br />

Now lies a sad companion <strong>of</strong> the<br />

dead:<br />

Far from Larissa lies, his native air,<br />

And ill requites his parents' tender<br />

care.

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