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Rh New Horror chill'd Their Veins; devote They saw Themselves to wretched Doom: with Efforts vain, Encouraged by Despair, or Obstinate To Fall like Men in Arms, Some dare renew Feeble Engagement, meeting Glorious Fate On the firm Land; the Rest discomfited, And pusht by MARLEBOROUGH's avengeful Hand, Leap plunging in the wide extended Flood: Bands, numerous as the Memphian Soldiery That swell'd the Erythræan Wave, when Wall'd The Unfroze Waters marvelously stood, Observant of the Great Command. Upbore By frothy Billows Thousands float the Stream In cumbrous Mail, with love of farther Shore; Confiding in their Hands, that sed'lous strive To cut th'outragious Fluent: In this Distress, Ev'n in the fight of Death, Some, Tokens shew Of fearless Friendship, and their sinking Mates Sustain; vain Love, thô laudable! absorpt By a fierce Eddy, They together found The vast Profundity; their Horses paw The swelling Surge, with fruitless Toil: Surcharg'd, And in his Course obstructed by large Spoil, The River flows redundant, and attacks Rh