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 Which Her statue glorified Throughout many kingdoms wide. There those children wore the crown To their children handed down Many and many a golden age Blotted now from history's page; Till the last of all the line Leagued him with the other nine Great Atlantic kings whose hosts Ravaged all the Mid Sea coasts: Then the whelming deluge rolled Over all those regions old; Thrice three thousand years before Solon questioned Egypt's lore.