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As from a brazen tower, o'erlook'd<br />

the field.<br />

Huge was its orb, with seven thick<br />

folds o'ercast,<br />

Of tough bull-hides; <strong>of</strong> solid brass<br />

the last,<br />

(<strong>The</strong> work <strong>of</strong> Tychius, who in Hyle<br />

dwell'd<br />

And in all arts <strong>of</strong> armoury excell'd,)<br />

This Ajax bore before his manly<br />

breast,<br />

And, threatening, thus his adverse<br />

chief address'd:<br />

"Hector! approach my arm, and<br />

singly know<br />

What strength thou hast, and what<br />

the Grecian foe.<br />

Achilles shuns the fight; yet some<br />

there are,<br />

Not void <strong>of</strong> soul, and not unskill'd<br />

in war:

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