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With Thracian wines recruit thy<br />

honour'd guests,<br />

For happy counsels flow from<br />

sober feasts.<br />

Wise, weighty counsels aid a state<br />

distress'd,<br />

And such a monarch as can choose<br />

the best.<br />

See what a blaze from hostile tents<br />

aspires,<br />

How near our fleet approach the<br />

Trojan fires!<br />

Who can, unmoved, behold the<br />

dreadful light?<br />

What eye beholds them, and can<br />

close to-night?<br />

This dreadful interval determines<br />

all;<br />

To-morrow, Troy must flame, or<br />

Greece must fall."<br />

Thus spoke the hoary sage: the rest<br />

obey;

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