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Whole troops before you labouring<br />

in the fray?<br />

Say, is it thus those honours you requite?<br />

<strong>The</strong> first in banquets, but the last in<br />

fight."<br />

Ulysses heard: the hero's warmth<br />

o'erspread<br />

His cheek with blushes: and severe,<br />

he said:<br />

"Take back the unjust reproach! Behold<br />

we stand<br />

Sheathed in bright arms, and but<br />

expect command.<br />

If glorious deeds afford thy soul delight,<br />

Behold me plunging in the thickest<br />

fight.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n give thy warrior-chief a warrior's<br />

due,<br />

Who dares to act whate'er thou<br />

dar'st to view."

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