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Are these two that fight together.

And the Ethiopian forces

Overspread the field of battle,

And the Edomites pursue them.

First in battle the foot-soldier

Comes to fight upon the highway,

Ever marching straight before him,

But to capture moving sideways,

Straying not from off his pathway,

Neither do his steps go backwards;

He may leap at the beginning

Anywhere within three chequers.

Should he take his steps in battle

Far away unto the eighth row,

Then a Queen to all appearance

He becomes and fights as she does.

And the Queen directs her moving

As she will to any quarter.