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We shared the lengthen'd labours <strong>of</strong><br />

a year?<br />

Troy walls I raised (for such were<br />

Jove's commands),<br />

And yon proud bulwarks grew beneath<br />

my hands:<br />

Thy task it was to feed the bellowing<br />

droves<br />

Along fair Ida's vales and pendant<br />

groves.<br />

But when the circling seasons in<br />

their train<br />

Brought back the grateful day that<br />

crown'd our pain,<br />

With menace stern the fraudful king<br />

defied<br />

Our latent godhead, and the prize<br />

denied:<br />

Mad as he was, he threaten'd servile<br />

bands,<br />

And doom'd us exiles far in barbarous<br />

lands. 273

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