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And towers and armies humbles to<br />

the dust.<br />

Haste then, for ever quit these fatal<br />

fields,<br />

Haste to the joys our native country<br />

yields;<br />

Spread all your canvas, all your<br />

oars employ,<br />

Nor hope the fall <strong>of</strong> heaven-defended<br />

Troy."<br />

He said: deep silence held the Grecian<br />

band;<br />

Silent, unmov'd in dire dismay they<br />

stand;<br />

A pensive scene! till Tydeus' warlike<br />

son<br />

Roll'd on the king his eyes, and<br />

thus begun:<br />

"When kings advise us to renounce<br />

our fame,<br />

First let him speak who first has<br />

suffer'd shame.

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