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[pg<br />

380]<br />

He spoke in vain—<strong>The</strong> chief<br />

without dismay<br />

Ploughs through the boiling surge<br />

his desperate way.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n rising in his rage above the<br />

shores,<br />

From all his deep the bellowing<br />

river roars,<br />

Huge heaps <strong>of</strong> slain disgorges on<br />

the coast,<br />

And round the banks the ghastly<br />

dead are toss'd.<br />

While all before, the billows ranged<br />

on high,<br />

(A watery bulwark,) screen the<br />

bands who fly.<br />

Now bursting on his head with<br />

thundering sound,<br />

<strong>The</strong> falling deluge whelms the hero<br />

round:<br />

His loaded shield bends to the rushing<br />

tide;

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