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[pg<br />

203]<br />

And through his arm stood forth the<br />

barbed dart.<br />

Surprised the monarch feels, yet<br />

void <strong>of</strong> fear<br />

On Coon rushes with his lifted<br />

spear:<br />

His brother's corpse the pious Trojan<br />

draws,<br />

And calls his country to assert his<br />

cause;<br />

Defends him breathless on the sanguine<br />

field,<br />

And o'er the body spreads his<br />

ample shield.<br />

Atrides, marking an unguarded<br />

part,<br />

Transfix'd the warrior with his<br />

brazen dart;<br />

Prone on his brother's bleeding<br />

breast he lay,<br />

<strong>The</strong> monarch's falchion lopp'd his<br />

head away:

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