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 “Be they the rear the van that were!
 * “Haste round the hill below!”

And thus ’twas done by Voimir straight,
 * ’Twas done by Czestmir too;

With speed around the mountain high
 * Nine times the army drew.

Thus they their number and their might
 * Augmented to the foe,

And thus within the foemen’s breasts
 * Did panic terror grow.

Among the brushwood on the hill
 * Themselves they scatter’d wide,

That in the foemen’s eyes their arms Might glance and gleam, and glittering beam
 * The hill on every side.

Quick Czestmir with his company
 * Burst forwards on the foe!

Four squadrons in that company
 * Did thus with Czestmir go.

And with them Tras burst forwards too
 * From out the shady wood,

Tras seiz’d upon the num’rous hosts,
 * That there against them stood.