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Make Room for the Combat, make Room,  Sound the Trumpet and Drum  A fairer than Venus prepares  To encounter a greater than Mars.

''Help! help! th' unpractis'd Conqueror cries;'' ''He faints, he falls, help, help! Ah me! he dies:'' Gently she tries to raise his Head, ''And weeps, alas! to find him dead.''

Sound, sound a Charge, 'tis War again; Again he fights, again is slain; ''Again, again, help, help! she cries,'' ''He faints, he falls, help, help! Ah me! he dies.''

Happy Pair. Free from Care, Enjoy the Blessing Of sweet Possessing, Free from Care, Happy Pair, Rh