The Year of Wonders.
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55.
The Duke, less numerous, but in Courage more,
On wings of all the winds to Combat flies:
His murdering Guns a loud Defiance roar,
And bloody Crosses on his Flag-staffs rise.
The Duke, less numerous, but in Courage more,
On wings of all the winds to Combat flies:
His murdering Guns a loud Defiance roar,
And bloody Crosses on his Flag-staffs rise.
56.
Both furl their Sails, and strip them for the Fight;
Their folded Sheets dismiss the useless Air:
(i) Th' Elean, &c. Where the Olympick Games were celebrated.(i) Th' Elean Plains could boast no nobler sight,
When struggling Champions did their Bodies bare.
Both furl their Sails, and strip them for the Fight;
Their folded Sheets dismiss the useless Air:
(i) Th' Elean, &c. Where the Olympick Games were celebrated.(i) Th' Elean Plains could boast no nobler sight,
When struggling Champions did their Bodies bare.
57.
Borne each by other in a distant Line,
The Sea-built Forts in dreadful order move:
So vast the noise, as if not Fleets did join,
(k) Lands unfix'd, from Virgil: Credas innare revulsas Cycladas, &c. (k) But lands unfixt, and floating Nations strove.
Borne each by other in a distant Line,
The Sea-built Forts in dreadful order move:
So vast the noise, as if not Fleets did join,
(k) Lands unfix'd, from Virgil: Credas innare revulsas Cycladas, &c. (k) But lands unfixt, and floating Nations strove.
58.
Now pass'd, on either side they nimbly tack,
Both strive to intercept and guide the wind:
And, in its eye, more closely they come back
To finish all the Deaths they left behind.
Now pass'd, on either side they nimbly tack,
Both strive to intercept and guide the wind:
And, in its eye, more closely they come back
To finish all the Deaths they left behind.
59. On
