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On Ajax thus a weight <strong>of</strong> Trojans<br />

hung,<br />

<strong>The</strong> strokes redoubled on his buckler<br />

rung;<br />

Confiding now in bulky strength he<br />

stands,<br />

Now turns, and backward bears the<br />

yielding bands;<br />

Now stiff recedes, yet hardly seems<br />

to fly,<br />

And threats his followers with retorted<br />

eye.<br />

Fix'd as the bar between two warring<br />

powers,<br />

While hissing darts descend in iron<br />

showers:<br />

In his broad buckler many a<br />

weapon stood,<br />

Its surface bristled with a quivering<br />

wood;<br />

And many a javelin, guiltless on the<br />

plain,

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