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[pg<br />

323]<br />

In vain Automedon now shakes the<br />

rein,<br />

Now plies the lash, and soothes and<br />

threats in vain;<br />

Nor to the fight nor Hellespont they<br />

go,<br />

Restive they stood, and obstinate in<br />

woe:<br />

Still as a tombstone, never to be<br />

moved,<br />

On some good man or woman unreproved<br />

Lays its eternal weight; or fix'd, as<br />

stands<br />

A marble courser by the sculptor's<br />

hands,<br />

Placed on the hero's grave. Along<br />

their face<br />

<strong>The</strong> big round drops coursed down<br />

with silent pace,<br />

Conglobing on the dust. <strong>The</strong>ir<br />

manes, that late

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