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The Relief of Malta Mustapha heard the news he had been foolʹd, Just six thousand formʹd Sicilyʹs relief, Pialiʹs caution was soon over‐ruled, ʺLand ten thousand & meet us up the coast!ʺ How felt the Turk When forced back onto land For more of warʹd black work, with peace so close at hand Dispirited once brave men are, Heads filling with dying fear, Hard galloping down from Naxxar Swerve the fresh‐faced Chevalier, Men from Mdina & Mgarr Now on his flank appear, Enough to finalise his rising doubt, Cohesion turns to rabble turns to rout. Some with his friends, some limping lone, Crawl to the coastal crack, Shelves of sandstone bare blood & bone, Christ‐sword plunged in their back, The Turks plunge toward safety to a shrill, ʺ...& dont come back!ʺ Saint Paulʹs Bay September 8th 1565 Victorious Valetta As back to Turkey gloom‐cloak’d galleys glide Let it forever cross the world known How one small island majesty defied Plucking much feathers from the Peacock Throne, How Christendom Triumphʹd oer the Crescent ‐ From Europeʹs old kingdoms gold‐gratitudes were sent. Auberges of Auvergne & France, Aragon & Germany Castille, Portugal & Provence Pour wealth into the kitty Fortune enough to help finance A fortified city, Joinʹd forever with its founding father, ʹHumillima Civitas Valettae.ʹ This was the Ottoman High Tide World conquest incomplete Now Maltese pride with Rome allied, O grand, Christian fleet Slaughters the Turkish navy – irriversable defeat. Lepanto
Napoleonica Come let us ramble on two hundred years Now Maltese curse the grand Knights of Saint John, Whose raison d’etre slowly disspaears, The long decaying of the Ottoman; Valetta’s chests Bulging with Muslim gold, While decadence infest their noble poise of old. Upon his complex to the east Napolen here pauses Finds auberges spread like a feast Of roci, exotic courses & so upon Malta releas’d All his hungry forces – Maltese taking Libertie as a wife The island fell without the loss of life. Alas she was no bedfellow Of our love romantic, For blow by blow crude taxe grow Sending men all frantic, Pleas sailing to Lord Nelson patrolling the Atlantic. Malta 1798 Rock of Empire While Boney battl’d at Aboukir Bay The English have enclosed Calypso’s Isles Fierce ring preventing vessels, every day, From provisioning the French rank & file; Valetta’s walls Immune to cannons’ shot, But not those hungry holes which growling stoumachs knot. To haples, “Vive Napoleon!” The garrisons surrender, Abandon’d on the hard ocean To starve & scarlet fever, Majestic London, from now on, Malta’s first officer – & even Mdina’s nobilty Happy to join Britain’s community. So in a skirl of pipe parades Portsmouth has flagg’d the Med – The vision fades… fourteen decades Into time’s train are fed – The grand digressionm over, let us fell the day instead. Malta
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CONTENTS Axis & Allies DAMO Rome Th
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Book I Rome Canto 1 The Trojan War,
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Helen Not setting sun, not rosy‐f
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Rape of Rhea Amulius usurps Numitor
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Rape of the Sabines How fair art th
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Cannae Unbalanced by the Sicilian l
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Pompey the Great Flying toward the
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Death of Ceasar A queen of immacula
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Two Emporers With thrilling conques
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The Sack of Rome Canto 1 The march
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Christianitas Along road‐ruin the
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Monjoie! Great Charlemagne has clai
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Vikings The crow‐dark, horse‐sw
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Hastings Destiny haunts the Duke of
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Canto 3 The birth of Berlin, the se
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Sa‐Lah‐Din The crescent league
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Spanish Rebirth The troubador desce
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Mongol Advance Tho Ghengiz Khan is
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Crusader Sunset The Mamluk Sultan s
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The Fall of Constantinople As panti
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Death of Chivalry Beneath the pyram
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Opening the Orient Among the island
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Armarda English impressa dares the
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The Thirty Years War As shepherds f
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Seige of Vienna Islamic spectres on
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Alexander MacDonald Tho there is on
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Peter the Great As nature shapes ra
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Canto II The Seven‐Years War & th
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Struggle for Existance Europeʹs pr
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Martial Romance Paul callʹd upon h
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American Revolution Liberty is the
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Britain Determinʹd As the Sun‐Ki
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Book V IMMORTALS Canto 1 The rise o
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Jove Rays of pure stardust pulse ac
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Rise of Jove The promise of eternal
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A Royal Tourney Wide‐ruling Jove
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Birth of Liberty Britannia, the Gau
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Defending Asia Slept Gaulish Gods,
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Heavenʹs Anguish As the great God
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Conversazione The goddess Karma fle
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Canto I The rise of Napoleon from t
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Eastern Complex From Perpignan to R
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Arthur Wellesley How noble is the E
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Glorious Autumn The continent of Eu
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Tilsit Like some black hole in Euro
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Canto III The fall of Napoleon from
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Retreat from Moscow With rumours of
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Fontainbleu Allied armies surround
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Messengers France rolls restless be
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Soldiersʹ Passions The violet pepp
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Portent of War The winds of change
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Wellingtonʹs Return Kissʹd by the
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First Blows With the ʹPas de Charg
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Missʹd Opportunities Dawn illumed
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A Restless Night Two blazing fire t
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French Optimism How they marchʹd o
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First Skirmish Wild flowers swayed
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Death of Picton Below the ridge in
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Canto II The French assaults & the
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Fall of the Farmouse With Wellingto
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A Deadly Pause Across the playne pr
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Wellingtonʹs Victory As thoʹ to s
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Napoleonic Fall An eagle circlʹd L
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Book IX The Great Game Canto I The
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The Ottoman Decay As just heroes ra
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Japanese Renaissance They watchʹd
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Otto Von Bismark The German nations
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Scramble For Africa Rhodes brings a
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American Empire As the destiny of A
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The Eastern Question The Tsarist em
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Death of Innocence A new beginning
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Canto I The course of the war from
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Battle of the Marne Such bitter see
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The Last Grenadier An old man hobbl
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Deserter There is a madness in the
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The English at the Somme The Magpie
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Canto III From the entry of the Ame
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All Quiet on the Western Front Twas
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Death of Owen The choice & master s
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Armistice The War is over, namore t
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The Nazi Party He mutter’d thro t
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The Wall Street Crash Young land of
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Anti‐Semitism Iin the heart of Eu
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Hitler Youth Max Stemmler roarʹd a
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Fascist Knot Hitler receiv’d his
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Nazi Party Rally The moment Max Ste
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War’s Promise While Britain rode
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Diplomatic Formalities A telegram l
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B.E.F. That happy breed of men chee
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Canto II The German attack on Franc
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Lightning War Somewhere midst the f
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Echoes of Defeat Thoʹ stretchʹd t
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Conqueror! Clear as crystal in his
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Royal Air Force ʺQueen to Bishop s
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BOOK XIII Barbarossa Canto I The de
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Desert War The Generalissimo took s
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Page 195 and 196: Bligh’s Capture There is a heat a
Page 197 and 198: Bismark At last the target ventures
Page 199 and 200: A Letter Home For six long months L
Page 201 and 202: Barbarossa The scenery sheds a sepi
Page 203 and 204: Prisoner of War Cradle of Slavic Ch
Page 205 and 206: Canto 1 The arrival of Balrog Balro
Page 207 and 208: The Approach On the flaming hoof ro
Page 209 and 210: The Indifference of Jove Saint Pete
Page 211 and 212: Heavenly Counsel Above the flight o
Page 213 and 214: Battle Lines So even Fate must pass
Page 215 and 216: Canto 3 The spread of the Immortal
Page 217 and 218: Evil Empire Midgard play’d host t
Page 219 and 220: Defeating Valhalla The brave Aesir
Page 221 and 222: Emperor Admirant Tojo lilts thro lu
Page 223 and 224: American Opinion Rita clocks off an
Page 225 and 226: Winston Chuchill Face sighing stern
Page 227 and 228: Resettlement The Star of Poland sti
Page 229 and 230: The British Ocean The waters of the
Page 231 and 232: The Pendulum Turns The winter offen
Page 233 and 234: FC Start Kizmenko was marchʹd into
Page 235 and 236: Stalin’s City The Sixth Army thun
Page 237 and 238: Digression I pledge a motion for th
Page 239 and 240: The Muslim Landing From watchtowers
Page 241 and 242: Canto 2 The siege of Malta A Fresh
Page 243: The Last Assault As mines explode i
Page 247 and 248: Bombing Malta As when muskets ended
Page 249 and 250: Malta Starved There was no spring i
Page 251 and 252: Book XVII Allied Advances Canto I T
Page 253 and 254: Arctic Circle The ice‐encrusted l
Page 255 and 256: Maltese Falcon From nettle‐danger
Page 257 and 258: Imperial Dementia The pursuit of un
Page 259 and 260: The Pendulum Turns From the depths
Page 261 and 262: Death of Xaver Stemmler Eʹer since
Page 263 and 264: Lost at Sea Rose & Freda arrive at
Page 265 and 266: Invasion of Italy ‘What is it all
Page 267 and 268: Canto I The course of the war enact
Page 269 and 270: Conquest of Italy Languor usurps th
Page 271 and 272: Savage Rape “At last! At last! Th
Page 273 and 274: End of the Dream Encaved in a dista
Page 275 and 276: Monte Cassino From white morning mi
Page 277 and 278: Canto III D‐Day & the Allied inva
Page 279 and 280: Denial & Destiny Across Ribbentrop
Page 281 and 282: The Longest Day The breath of morni
Page 283 and 284: Revenge! A secret smile spread to e
Page 285 and 286: Betrayal! What emotion transforms m
Page 287 and 288: Death in the Jungle Having swappʹd
Page 289 and 290: Liberation Aux Barricades! with pat
Page 291 and 292: The Hungarian Question Hoffa tries
Page 293 and 294: Defeating the Wehrmacht Men shuffle
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Landsturm Max Stemmler requisition
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General Patton The star‐marked op
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Death Camp If this is life then lif
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Collapse of the Reich Only Goebells
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Canto II The defeat of Japan & the
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Death of Basho The messenger sprint
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Killer Blow Molotov meets with the
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At Home with the Windsors As mornin
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Grand Palace of Justice Of an empir
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Book XXI The Cold War Canto I The R
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Blood‐Ties By sleeper train the w
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A Game of Ten‐Pin It seems the Wa
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JFK As the all‐American democrat
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Modern Warfare The Viet Cong receiv
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World Cup It seems mankind has foun
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Toyboy Drainʹd by the stresses of
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Star Wars From the knocking at the
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Canto I The rise of religious tensi
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Invocation There is a glade in an a
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Terrorist As Atta travell’d to th
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The North Tower How vastly the capi
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Death of the Towers From musing‐g
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Canto III The Allied invasion of Is
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Regimeʹs End Pursuing the ʹmost w
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Death of Saddam Hussein Since Tilsi
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Holy Waters Uncle Sam sat enthroned
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Stone to Dust Mars has retreated to
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Twilight of the Gods How gruesome i
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Striking the Allies Cocytus shimmer
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Heavenly Judgement Jove greets the
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Heavenly Schism O there must pass a
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Power of Faith The Gods gather’d
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New Begginings Jove flung Satanus i
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Departures Acccompanied by Appollon
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Idyllicity A little further down th
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Canto 2 The Poet’s journey round
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Indiana Byron Gorgeous Coromandel,
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Colonial Akbarʹs passengers rush f
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Sacred City Alluvial flatlands roll
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Cricket This short, Byronic sortie
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BOOK XXV Mumbai Canto 1 The initial
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First Landing Night nestled midst t
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A Small Matter of Timing As gunmen
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Wounded! The call came in from deep
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Captured Finding a bullet had a bac
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An Unusual Wedding With Mumbai’s
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Inspirations I was not yet prepared
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Commando Ajmal lay frighten’d in
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Canto I The poetʹs journey thro He
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Ancyent Wisdom Girdling circles of
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Heart of Hell The Tuscan singer bri
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Noble Births I sing of Rama & his n
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The Golden Stag Despite his chief a
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Canto III The poetʹs journey thro
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Heavenly Passage Light illimitable
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Epiphany As gradients upend alpinis
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Ave Futura! What of man’s progres
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Fall of Greece The Asian hordes, cr
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Fall of England As France lay panti
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Invading Scotland Raypoz met Selin
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Trojan Horse Selin stepp’d throug
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CHYREN’s High Tide Raypoz steps s
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Reconquest of Italy The empire of C
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Final Victory The Wars are over bar
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