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<strong>The</strong> afflicted monarch shiver'd with<br />

despair;<br />

Pale grew his face, and upright<br />

stood his hair;<br />

Sunk was his heart; his colour went<br />

and came;<br />

A sudden trembling shook his aged<br />

frame:<br />

When Hermes, greeting, touch'd his<br />

royal hand,<br />

And, gentle, thus accosts with kind<br />

demand:<br />

"Say whither, father! when each<br />

mortal sight<br />

Is seal'd in sleep, thou wanderest<br />

through the night?<br />

Why roam thy mules and steeds the<br />

plains along,<br />

Through Grecian foes, so numerous<br />

and so strong?<br />

What couldst thou hope, should<br />

these thy treasures view;

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