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He ceased. <strong>The</strong> Fates suppress'd his<br />

labouring breath,<br />

And his eyes stiffen'd at the hand <strong>of</strong><br />

death;<br />

To the dark realm the spirit wings<br />

its way,<br />

(<strong>The</strong> manly body left a load <strong>of</strong><br />

clay,)<br />

And plaintive glides along the<br />

dreary coast,<br />

A naked, wandering, melancholy<br />

ghost!<br />

Achilles, musing as he roll'd his<br />

eyes<br />

O'er the dead hero, thus unheard,<br />

replies:<br />

"Die thou the first! When Jove and<br />

heaven ordain,<br />

I follow thee"—He said, and<br />

stripp'd the slain.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n forcing backward from the<br />

gaping wound

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