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In deep recesses <strong>of</strong> the gloomy<br />

wood,<br />

Rush fearless to the plains, and uncontroll'd<br />

Depopulate the stalls and waste the<br />

fold:<br />

Till pierced at distance from their<br />

native den,<br />

O'erpowered they fall beneath the<br />

force <strong>of</strong> men.<br />

Prostrate on earth their beauteous<br />

bodies lay,<br />

Like mountain firs, as tall and<br />

straight as they.<br />

Great Menelaus views with pitying<br />

eyes,<br />

Lifts his bright lance, and at the<br />

victor flies;<br />

Mars urged him on; yet, ruthless in<br />

his hate,<br />

<strong>The</strong> god but urged him to provoke<br />

his fate.

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