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Rh Soon as his eyes had gazed their fill

On that sad monument of ill,

Live fury kindling every vein,

He cries with terrible disdain:

'What! in my friend's dear spoils arrayed

To me for mercy sue?

'Tis Pallas, Pallas guides the blade:

From your cursed blood his injured shade

Thus takes the atonement due.'

Thus as he spoke, his sword he drave

With fierce and fiery blow

Through the broad breast before him spread:

The stalwart limbs grow cold and dead:

One groan the indignant spirit gave,

Then sought the shades below.