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'Twas form'd <strong>of</strong> horn, and smooth'd<br />

with artful toil:<br />

A mountain goat resign'd the shining<br />

spoil.<br />

Who pierced long since beneath his<br />

arrows bled;<br />

<strong>The</strong> stately quarry on the cliffs lay<br />

dead,<br />

And sixteen palms his brow's large<br />

honours spread:<br />

<strong>The</strong> workmen join'd, and shaped<br />

the bended horns,<br />

And beaten gold each taper point<br />

adorns.<br />

This, by the Greeks unseen, the<br />

warrior bends,<br />

Screen'd by the shields <strong>of</strong> his surrounding<br />

friends:<br />

<strong>The</strong>re meditates the mark; and<br />

couching low,<br />

Fits the sharp arrow to the wellstrung<br />

bow.

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