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Old as I am, to age I scorn to yield,<br />

And daily mingle in the martial<br />

field;<br />

But sure till now no coursers struck<br />

my sight<br />

Like these, conspicuous through the<br />

ranks <strong>of</strong> fight.<br />

Some god, I deem, conferred the<br />

glorious prize,<br />

Bless'd as ye are, and favourites <strong>of</strong><br />

the skies;<br />

<strong>The</strong> care <strong>of</strong> him who bids the thunder<br />

roar,<br />

And her, whose fury bathes the<br />

world with gore."<br />

"Father! not so, (sage Ithacus rejoin'd,)<br />

<strong>The</strong> gifts <strong>of</strong> heaven are <strong>of</strong> a nobler<br />

kind.<br />

Of Thracian lineage are the steeds<br />

ye view,

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