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<strong>The</strong> all-mighty spoke, nor durst the<br />

powers reply:<br />

A reverend horror silenced all the<br />

sky;<br />

Trembling they stood before their<br />

sovereign's look;<br />

At length his best-beloved, the<br />

power <strong>of</strong> wisdom, spoke:<br />

"O first and greatest! God, by gods<br />

adored<br />

We own thy might, our father and<br />

our lord!<br />

But, ah! permit to pity human state:<br />

If not to help, at least lament their<br />

fate.<br />

From fields forbidden we submiss<br />

refrain,<br />

With arms unaiding mourn our Argives<br />

slain;<br />

Yet grant my counsels still their<br />

breasts may move,

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