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[pg<br />

035]<br />

Expect the time to Troy's destruction<br />

given.<br />

And try the faith <strong>of</strong> Chalcas and <strong>of</strong><br />

heaven.<br />

What pass'd at Aulis, Greece can<br />

witness bear, 89<br />

And all who live to breathe this<br />

Phrygian air.<br />

Beside a fountain's sacred brink we<br />

raised<br />

Our verdant altars, and the victims<br />

blazed:<br />

'Twas where the plane-tree spread<br />

its shades around,<br />

<strong>The</strong> altars heaved; and from the<br />

crumbling ground<br />

A mighty dragon shot, <strong>of</strong> dire<br />

portent;<br />

From Jove himself the dreadful<br />

sign was sent.

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