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While useless words consume the<br />

unactive hours,<br />

No wonder Troy so long resists our<br />

powers.<br />

Rise, great Atrides! and with courage<br />

sway;<br />

We march to war, if thou direct the<br />

way.<br />

But leave the few that dare resist<br />

thy laws,<br />

<strong>The</strong> mean deserters <strong>of</strong> the Grecian<br />

cause,<br />

To grudge the conquests mighty<br />

Jove prepares,<br />

And view with envy our successful<br />

wars.<br />

On that great day, when first the<br />

martial train,<br />

Big with the fate <strong>of</strong> Ilion, plough'd<br />

the main,<br />

Jove, on the right, a prosperous signal<br />

sent,

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