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Not thus our vows, confirm'd with<br />

wine and gore,<br />

Those hands we plighted, and those<br />

oaths we swore,<br />

Shall all be vain: when Heaven's revenge<br />

is slow,<br />

Jove but prepares to strike the<br />

fiercer blow.<br />

<strong>The</strong> day shall come, that great<br />

avenging day,<br />

When Troy's proud glories in the<br />

dust shall lay,<br />

When Priam's powers and Priam's<br />

self shall fall,<br />

And one prodigious ruin swallow<br />

all.<br />

I see the god, already, from the pole<br />

Bare his red arm, and bid the thunder<br />

roll;<br />

I see the Eternal all his fury shed,<br />

And shake his aegis o'er their guilty<br />

head.

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