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Rh Andromache sobs tears of woe.

And Clytaemenestra's lover,

Like Menelous, is strong and bold: Aeneas on a burning wall

Carries Anchises from the show.

Then vulgar scenes stare at each soul,

Hair-raising visions greet each eye; Priam's son is dragged round ancient Troy,

Tied fast to a chariot's tail; Andromeda's doomed as Death's toll; Patroclus dies with a deep sigh.

Phyrrhus sacks Troy with a devilish joy; Hecuba's nineteen sons now wail

As Mycenae and Tiryns are burn'd:

The Scaean Gate is storm'd by Peers! Archæans and Phrygians bold

Have fought with Hatred's biting lust.

Telemachus whom the Fates have spurn'd

Finds Ulysses in twenty years; Thessalian Soldans in gold,

Like Dædalus, slept on in dust