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<strong>The</strong> squadrons spread their sable<br />

wings behind.<br />

Now shouts and tumults wake the<br />

tardy sun,<br />

As with the light the warriors' toils<br />

begun.<br />

Even Jove, whose thunder spoke<br />

his wrath, distill'd<br />

Red drops <strong>of</strong> blood o'er all the fatal<br />

field; 220<br />

<strong>The</strong> woes <strong>of</strong> men unwilling to survey,<br />

And all the slaughters that must<br />

stain the day.<br />

Near Ilus' tomb, in order ranged<br />

around,<br />

<strong>The</strong> Trojan lines possess'd the<br />

rising ground:<br />

<strong>The</strong>re wise Polydamas and Hector<br />

stood;<br />

Æneas, honour'd as a guardian god;<br />

Bold Polybus, Agenor the divine;

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