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Close to the walls, advancing o'er<br />

the fields<br />

Beneath one ro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> well-compacted<br />

shields,<br />

March, bending on, the Greeks' embodied<br />

powers,<br />

Far stretching in the shade <strong>of</strong> Trojan<br />

towers.<br />

Great Hector singly stay'd: chain'd<br />

down by fate<br />

<strong>The</strong>re fix'd he stood before the<br />

Scaean gate;<br />

Still his bold arms determined to<br />

employ,<br />

<strong>The</strong> guardian still <strong>of</strong> long-defended<br />

Troy.<br />

Apollo now to tired Achilles turns:<br />

(<strong>The</strong> power confess'd in all his<br />

glory burns:)<br />

"And what (he cries) has Peleus'<br />

son in view,

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