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[pg<br />

213]<br />

Chief after chief the raging foe destroys;<br />

Calm he looks on, and every death<br />

enjoys.<br />

Now the slow course <strong>of</strong> all-impairing<br />

time<br />

Unstrings my nerves, and ends my<br />

manly prime;<br />

Oh! had I still that strength my<br />

youth possess'd,<br />

When this bold arm the Epeian<br />

powers oppress'd,<br />

<strong>The</strong> bulls <strong>of</strong> Elis in glad triumph<br />

led,<br />

And stretch'd the great Itymonaeus<br />

dead!<br />

<strong>The</strong>n from my fury fled the trembling<br />

swains,<br />

And ours was all the plunder <strong>of</strong> the<br />

plains:<br />

Fifty white flocks, full fifty herds<br />

<strong>of</strong> swine,

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