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A mass <strong>of</strong> iron (an enormous<br />

round),<br />

Whose weight and size the circling<br />

Greeks admire,<br />

Rude from the furnace, and but<br />

shaped by fire.<br />

This mighty quoit Aetion wont to<br />

rear,<br />

And from his whirling arm dismiss<br />

in air;<br />

<strong>The</strong> giant by Achilles slain, he<br />

stow'd<br />

Among his spoils this memorable<br />

load.<br />

For this, he bids those nervous<br />

artists vie,<br />

That teach the disk to sound along<br />

the sky.<br />

"Let him, whose might can hurl this<br />

bowl, arise;<br />

Who farthest hurls it, take it as his<br />

prize;

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