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Thus Chryses pray'd.—the favouring<br />

power attends,<br />

And from Olympus' l<strong>of</strong>ty tops descends.<br />

Bent was his bow, the Grecian<br />

hearts to wound; 50<br />

Fierce as he moved, his silver<br />

shafts resound.<br />

Breathing revenge, a sudden night<br />

he spread,<br />

And gloomy darkness roll'd about<br />

his head.<br />

<strong>The</strong> fleet in view, he twang'd his<br />

deadly bow,<br />

And hissing fly the feather'd fates<br />

below.<br />

On mules and dogs the infection<br />

first began; 51<br />

And last, the vengeful arrows fix'd<br />

in man.<br />

For nine long nights, through all the<br />

dusky air,

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