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Thy praise it is in dreadful camps to<br />

shine,<br />

But old experience and calm wisdom<br />

mine.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n hear my counsel, and to reason<br />

yield,<br />

<strong>The</strong> bravest soon are satiate <strong>of</strong> the<br />

field;<br />

Though vast the heaps that strow<br />

the crimson plain,<br />

<strong>The</strong> bloody harvest brings but little<br />

gain:<br />

<strong>The</strong> scale <strong>of</strong> conquest ever wavering<br />

lies,<br />

Great Jove but turns it, and the victor<br />

dies!<br />

<strong>The</strong> great, the bold, by thousands<br />

daily fall,<br />

And endless were the grief, to weep<br />

for all.<br />

Eternal sorrows what avails to<br />

shed?

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