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As when some stately trappings are<br />

decreed<br />

To grace a monarch on his bounding<br />

steed,<br />

A nymph in Caria or Maeonia bred,<br />

Stains the pure ivory with a lively<br />

red;<br />

With equal lustre various colours<br />

vie,<br />

<strong>The</strong> shining whiteness, and the<br />

Tyrian dye:<br />

So great Atrides! show'd thy sacred<br />

blood,<br />

As down thy snowy thigh distill'd<br />

the streaming flood.<br />

With horror seized, the king <strong>of</strong> men<br />

descried<br />

<strong>The</strong> shaft infix'd, and saw the gushing<br />

tide:<br />

Nor less the Spartan fear'd, before<br />

he found<br />

<strong>The</strong> shining barb appear above the<br />

wound,

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