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    All in a moment through the gloom were seen

    Ten thousand Banners rise into the Air [ 545 ]

    With Orient Colours waving: with them rose

    A Forest huge of Spears: and thronging Helms

    Appeard, and serried shields in thick array

    Of depth immeasurable: Anon they move

    In perfect Phalanx to the Dorian mood [ 550 ]

    Of Flutes and s<big></big>oft Recorders; such as raisd

    To hight of emper Heros old

    Arming to Battel, and in stead e

    Deliberate valour breathd, firm and unmovd

    With dread of death to flight or foul retreat, [ 555 ]

    Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage

    With solemn touches, troubld thoughts, and chase

    Anguish and doubt and fear and sorroain

    From mortal or immortal minds. bbr></abbr>Thus they

    Breathing united force with fixed thought [ 560 ]

    Movd on in sileo soft Pipes that charmd

    Thir painful steps o<q>９9lｉb.</q>re the burnt soyle; and now

    Advan view, they stand, a horrid Front

    Of dreadful length and dazling Arms, in guise

    Of Warriers old with orderd Spear and Shield, [ 565 ]

    Awaiting what and thir mighty Chief

    Had to impose: He through the a<tt>99liｂ?t>rmed Files

    Darts his experienct eye, and soon traverse

    The whole Battalion views, thir order due,

    Thir visages and stature as of Gods, [ 570 ]

    Thir number last he summs. And now his heart

    Distends with pride, and hardning in his strength

    Glories: For never since created man,

    Met such imbodied force, as namd with these

    Could merit more then that small infantry [ 575 ]

    Warrd on by es: though all the Giant brood

    Of Phlegra with th Heroic Race were joynd

    That fought at Thebs and Ilium, on each side

    Mixt with auxiliar Gods; and what resounds

    In Fable or Romance of Uthers Son [ 580 ]

    Begirt with British a藏书网nd Armoriights;

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