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"Mark how this way yon bending<br />

squadrons yield!<br />

<strong>The</strong> storm rolls on, and Hector<br />

rules the field:<br />

Here stand his utmost force."—<strong>The</strong><br />

warrior said;<br />

Swift at the word his ponderous<br />

javelin fled;<br />

Nor miss'd its aim, but where the<br />

plumage danced<br />

Razed the smooth cone, and thence<br />

obliquely glanced.<br />

Safe in his helm (the gift <strong>of</strong> Phoebus'<br />

hands)<br />

Without a wound the Trojan hero<br />

stands;<br />

But yet so stunn'd, that, staggering<br />

on the plain.<br />

His arm and knee his sinking bulk<br />

sustain;<br />

O'er his dim sight the misty vapours<br />

rise,

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