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Thus stood the attendants stupid<br />

with surprise:<br />

All mute, yet seem'd to question<br />

with their eyes:<br />

Each look'd on other, none the silence<br />

broke,<br />

Till thus at last the kingly suppliant<br />

spoke:<br />

"Ah think, thou favour'd <strong>of</strong> the<br />

powers divine! 295<br />

Think <strong>of</strong> thy father's age, and pity<br />

mine!<br />

In me that father's reverend image<br />

trace,<br />

Those silver hairs, that venerable<br />

face;<br />

His trembling limbs, his helpless<br />

person, see!<br />

In all my equal, but in misery!<br />

Yet now, perhaps, some turn <strong>of</strong> human<br />

fate

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