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As sweating reapers in some<br />

wealthy field,<br />

Ranged in two bands, their crooked<br />

weapons wield,<br />

Bear down the furrows, till their labours<br />

meet;<br />

Thick fall the heapy harvests at<br />

their feet:<br />

So Greece and Troy the field <strong>of</strong> war<br />

divide,<br />

And falling ranks are strow'd on<br />

every side.<br />

None stoop'd a thought to base inglorious<br />

flight; 221<br />

But horse to horse, and man to man<br />

they fight,<br />

Not rabid wolves more fierce contest<br />

their prey;<br />

Each wounds, each bleeds, but<br />

none resign the day.<br />

Discord with joy the scene <strong>of</strong> death<br />

descries,

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