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So parts the chief; from rank to<br />

rank he flew,<br />

And round on all sides sent his<br />

piercing view.<br />

As the bold bird, endued with<br />

sharpest eye<br />

Of all that wings the mid aerial sky,<br />

<strong>The</strong> sacred eagle, from his walks<br />

above<br />

Looks down, and sees the distant<br />

thicket move;<br />

<strong>The</strong>n stoops, and sousing on the<br />

quivering hare,<br />

Snatches his life amid the clouds <strong>of</strong><br />

air.<br />

Not with less quickness, his exerted<br />

sight<br />

Pass'd this and that way, through<br />

the ranks <strong>of</strong> fight:<br />

Till on the left the chief he sought,<br />

he found,<br />

Cheering his men, and spreading<br />

deaths around:

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