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While fast behind them runs the<br />

blaze <strong>of</strong> fire;<br />

Driven from the land before the<br />

smoky cloud,<br />

<strong>The</strong> clustering legions rush into the<br />

flood:<br />

So, plunged in Xanthus by Achilles'<br />

force,<br />

Roars the resounding surge with<br />

men and horse.<br />

His bloody lance the hero casts<br />

aside,<br />

(Which spreading tamarisks on the<br />

margin hide,)<br />

<strong>The</strong>n, like a god, the rapid billows<br />

braves,<br />

Arm'd with his sword, high brandish'd<br />

o'er the waves:<br />

Now down he plunges, now he<br />

whirls it round,<br />

Deep groan'd the waters with the<br />

dying sound;

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