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In silent state the consistory<br />

crown'd.<br />

A place there was, yet undefiled<br />

with gore,<br />

<strong>The</strong> spot where Hector stopp'd his<br />

rage before;<br />

When night descending, from his<br />

vengeful hand<br />

Reprieved the relics <strong>of</strong> the Grecian<br />

band:<br />

(<strong>The</strong> plain beside with mangled<br />

corps was spread,<br />

And all his progress mark'd by<br />

heaps <strong>of</strong> dead:)<br />

<strong>The</strong>re sat the mournful kings: when<br />

Neleus' son,<br />

<strong>The</strong> council opening, in these<br />

words begun:<br />

"Is there (said he) a chief so greatly<br />

brave,<br />

His life to hazard, and his country<br />

save?

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