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 * Assyria, Palestine
 * Armed with her bock divine,

Dread Persia whose fleet chariots charged and won Pale Continents where prostrate monarchs kneel Before the flash of her resistless steel.


 * As one by one they start
 * With proudly beating heart

Fast in the furious, fierce-contested race,
 * Where neck to neck they strain
 * Deliriously to gain

The winning post of power, the meed of praise; Some drop behind, fall, or are trampled down While the proud victor grasps the laurel crown.


 * Not only great campaigns
 * Shall glorify their reigns,

But high-towered cities wondrous to behold,
 * I With gardens poised in air
 * Like bowers of Eden fair,

With brazen gates and shrines of beaten gold,