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[pg<br />

199]<br />

And claim a respite from the sylvan<br />

war;<br />

But not till half the prostrate forests<br />

lay<br />

Stretch'd in long ruin, and exposed<br />

to day)<br />

<strong>The</strong>n, nor till then, the Greeks' impulsive<br />

might<br />

Pierced the black phalanx, and let<br />

in the light.<br />

Great Agamemnon then the<br />

slaughter led,<br />

And slew Bienor at his people's<br />

head:<br />

Whose squire Oileus, with a sudden<br />

spring,<br />

Leap'd from the chariot to revenge<br />

his king;<br />

But in his front he felt the fatal<br />

wound,<br />

Which pierced his brain, and<br />

stretch'd him on the ground.

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