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Wash'd from beneath him slides the<br />

slimy soil;<br />

When thus (his eyes on heaven's<br />

expansion thrown)<br />

Forth bursts the hero with an angry<br />

groan:<br />

"Is there no god Achilles to befriend,<br />

No power to avert his miserable<br />

end?<br />

Prevent, O Jove! this ignominious<br />

date, 271<br />

And make my future life the sport<br />

<strong>of</strong> fate.<br />

Of all heaven's oracles believed in<br />

vain,<br />

But most <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>tis must her son<br />

complain;<br />

By Phoebus' darts she prophesied<br />

my fall,<br />

In glorious arms before the Trojan<br />

wall.

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