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[pg<br />

037]<br />

With the huge shield each brawny<br />

arm depress'd,<br />

Each aching nerve refuse the lance<br />

to throw,<br />

And each spent courser at the chariot<br />

blow.<br />

Who dares, inglorious, in his ships<br />

to stay,<br />

Who dares to tremble on this signal<br />

day;<br />

That wretch, too mean to fall by<br />

martial power,<br />

<strong>The</strong> birds shall mangle, and the<br />

dogs devour."<br />

<strong>The</strong> monarch spoke; and straight a<br />

murmur rose,<br />

Loud as the surges when the tempest<br />

blows,<br />

That dash'd on broken rocks tumultuous<br />

roar,

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