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O'er heaps <strong>of</strong> carcases, and hills <strong>of</strong><br />

shields.<br />

<strong>The</strong> horses' ho<strong>of</strong>s are bathed in heroes'<br />

gore,<br />

And, dashing, purple all the car before;<br />

<strong>The</strong> groaning axle sable drops distils,<br />

And mangled carnage clogs the<br />

rapid wheels.<br />

Here Hector, plunging through the<br />

thickest fight,<br />

Broke the dark phalanx, and let in<br />

the light:<br />

(By the long lance, the sword, or<br />

ponderous stone.<br />

<strong>The</strong> ranks he scatter'd and the<br />

troops o'erthrown:)<br />

Ajax he shuns, through all the dire<br />

debate,<br />

And fears that arm whose force he<br />

felt so late.

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