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through the Delphian shades An Eastern trumpet rung! And the startled eagle rush'd on high, With a sounding flight through the fiery sky, And banners, o'er the shadowy glades, To the sweeping winds were flung.

Banners, with deep-red gold All waving, as a flame, And a fitful glance from the bright spear-head On the dim wood-paths of the mountain shed, And a peal of Asia's war-notes told That in arms the Persian came.