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Relentless Hannibal, in pride Of sworn, fix'd hatred, lowers ;

Caesar, — 'tis Brutus at his side, — In peerless grandeur towers.

With moonlight softness Helen's charms Dissolve the spectred gloom.

The leading star of Greece in arms, Portending Ilion's doom.

But Homer ; — see the bard arise ;

And hark ! — he strikes the lyre ; The Dardan warriors lift their eyes,

The Argive Chiefs respire.

And while his music rolls along, The towers of Troy sublime,

Raised by the magic breath of song, Mock the destroyer Time.

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