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[pg<br />

150]<br />

As full-blown poppies, overcharged<br />

with rain, 196<br />

Decline the head, and drooping kiss<br />

the plain;<br />

So sinks the youth: his beauteous<br />

head, depress'd<br />

Beneath his helmet, drops upon his<br />

breast.<br />

Another shaft the raging archer<br />

drew,<br />

That other shaft with erring fury<br />

flew,<br />

(From Hector, Phoebus turn'd the<br />

flying wound,)<br />

Yet fell not dry or guiltless to the<br />

ground:<br />

Thy breast, brave Archeptolemus!<br />

it tore,<br />

And dipp'd its feathers in no vulgar<br />

gore.

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