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A Lay Sung at the Feast (36)
2023-12-06XXXVI Then the fierce trumpet-flourish From earth to heaven arose, The kites know well the long stern swell That bids the Romans close. Then the good ...
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A Lay Sung at the Feast (35)
2023-12-06XXV So answered those strange horsemen, And each couched low his spear； And forthwith all the ranks of Rome Were bold, and of good cheer： And on the t...
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A Lay Sung at the Feast (34)
2023-12-06XXXIV ``By many names men call us； In many lands we dwell： Well Samothracia knows us； Cyrene knows us well. Our house in gay Tarentum Is hung each mor...
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A Lay Sung at the Feast (33)
2023-12-06XXXIII And all who saw them trembled, And pale grew every cheek； And Aulus the Dictator Scarce gathered voice to speak. ``Say by what name men call yo...
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A Lay Sung at the Feast (32)
2023-12-06XXXII So spake he； and was buckling Tighter black Auster's band, When he was aware of a princely pair That rode at his right hand. So like they we...
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A Lay Sung at the Feast (31)
2023-12-06XXXI And Aulus the Dictator Stroked Auster's raven mane, With heed he looked unto the girths, With heed unto the rein. ``Now bear me well, black A...
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A Lay Sung at the Feast (30)
2023-12-06XXX But, like a graven image, Black Auster kept his place, And ever wistfully he looked Into his master's face. The raven-mane that daily, With pa...
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A Lay Sung at the Feast (29)
2023-12-06XXIX Fast, fast, with heels wild spurning, The dark-gray charger fled： He burst through ranks of fighting men, He sprang o'er heaps of dead. His b...
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A Lay Sung at the Feast (28)
2023-12-06XXVIII All round them paused the battle, While met in mortal fray The Roman and the Tusculan, The horses black and gray. Herminius smote Mamilius Thro...
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A Lay Sung at the Feast (27)
2023-12-06XXVII Mamilius spied Herminius, And dashed across the way. ``Herminius！ I have sought thee Through many a bloody day. One of us two, Herminius, Shall ...