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Where late a jungle spread its tangled dells, And panthers lurked within the forest's cells; Where still in troops the famished jackalls prowl, And the wolf bays the moon with dismal howl; Where mid barbaric pomp a Satrap bore Tyrannic sway along the Ganges' shore, And the adjacent city only rang With the deep dhole, or harsher cymbal's clang, And native crowds beheld with fierce delight On the red plain the sanguinary fight Of savage beasts, whose worse than brutal sport Formed the amusement of an Eastern Court;