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"Goddess! (he cried,) these glorious<br />

arms, that shine<br />

With matchless art, confess the<br />

hand divine.<br />

Now to the bloody battle let me<br />

bend:<br />

But ah! the relics <strong>of</strong> my slaughter'd<br />

friend!<br />

In those wide wounds through<br />

which his spirit fled,<br />

Shall flies, and worms obscene,<br />

pollute the dead?"<br />

"That unavailing care be laid aside,<br />

(<strong>The</strong> azure goddess to her son<br />

replied,)<br />

Whole years untouch'd, uninjured<br />

shall remain,<br />

Fresh as in life, the carcase <strong>of</strong> the<br />

slain.<br />

But go, Achilles, as affairs require,<br />

Before the Grecian peers renounce<br />

thine ire:

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