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"Too late, O friend! my rashness I<br />

deplore;<br />

<strong>The</strong>se shafts, once fatal, carry death<br />

no more.<br />

Tydeus' and Atreus' sons their<br />

points have found,<br />

And undissembled gore pursued the<br />

wound.<br />

In vain they bleed: this unavailing<br />

bow<br />

Serves, not to slaughter, but provoke<br />

the foe.<br />

In evil hour these bended horns I<br />

strung,<br />

And seized the quiver where it idly<br />

hung.<br />

Cursed be the fate that sent me to<br />

the field<br />

Without a warrior's arms, the spear<br />

and shield!<br />

If e'er with life I quit the Trojan<br />

plain,

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