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O'er the dark clouds extends his<br />

purple bow,<br />

(In sign <strong>of</strong> tempests from the<br />

troubled air,<br />

Or from the rage <strong>of</strong> man, destructive<br />

war,)<br />

<strong>The</strong> drooping cattle dread the impending<br />

skies,<br />

And from his half-till'd field the labourer<br />

flies:<br />

In such a form the goddess round<br />

her drew<br />

A livid cloud, and to the battle flew.<br />

Assuming Phoenix' shape on earth<br />

she falls,<br />

And in his well-known voice to<br />

Sparta calls:<br />

"And lies Achilles' friend, beloved<br />

by all,<br />

A prey to dogs beneath the Trojan<br />

wall?<br />

What shame 'o Greece for future<br />

times to tell,

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