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O'er the fall'n trunk his ample<br />

shield display'd,<br />

He hides the hero with his mighty<br />

shade,<br />

And threats aloud! the Greeks with<br />

longing eyes<br />

Behold at distance, but forbear the<br />

prize.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n fierce Tydides stoops; and<br />

from the fields<br />

Heaved with vast force, a rocky<br />

fragment wields.<br />

Not two strong men the enormous<br />

weight could raise,<br />

Such men as live in these degenerate<br />

days: 147<br />

He swung it round; and, gathering<br />

strength to throw,<br />

Discharged the ponderous ruin at<br />

the foe.<br />

Where to the hip the inserted thigh<br />

unites,

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