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Deluge whole fields, and sweep the<br />

trees along,<br />

Through ruin'd moles the rushing<br />

wave resounds,<br />

O'erwhelm's the bridge, and bursts<br />

the l<strong>of</strong>ty bounds;<br />

<strong>The</strong> yellow harvests <strong>of</strong> the ripen'd<br />

year,<br />

And flatted vineyards, one sad<br />

waste appear! 144<br />

While Jove descends in sluicy<br />

sheets <strong>of</strong> rain,<br />

And all the labours <strong>of</strong> mankind are<br />

vain.<br />

So raged Tydides, boundless in his<br />

ire,<br />

Drove armies back, and made all<br />

Troy retire.<br />

With grief the leader <strong>of</strong> the Lycian<br />

band<br />

Saw the wide waste <strong>of</strong> his destructive<br />

hand:

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