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Our known Disasters fill ev'n foreign Lands:
See there, where old unhappy Priam stands!
Ev'n the Mute Walls relate the Warrior's Fame,
And Trojan Griefs the Tyrians Pity claim.
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$He said, his Tears a ready Passage find, 650
Devouring what he saw so well design'd;
And with an empty Picture fed his Mind.
For there he saw the fainting Grecians yield;
And here the trembling Trojans quit the Field,
Pursu'd by fierce Achilles through the Plain, 655
On his high Chariot driving o'er the Slain.
The Tents of Rhesus next, his Grief renew,
By their white Sails betray'd to nightly view.
And wakeful Diomede, whose cruel Sword 659
The Centries slew; nor spar'd their slumb'ring Lord.
Then took the fiery Steeds, e'er yet the Food
Of Troy they taste, or drink the Xanthian Flood.
Elsewhere he saw where Troilus defy'd
Achilles, and unequal Combat try'd.
Then, where the Boy disarm'd with loosen'd Reins,
Was by his Horses hurry'd o'er the Plains: 666
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$Hung by the Neck and Hair, and drag'd around,
The hostile Spear yet sticking in his Wound;
With tracks of Blood inscrib'd the dusty Ground.
$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$Mean time the Trojan Dames oppress'd with Woe,
To Pallas Fane in long Procession goe, 671
In hopes to reconcile their Heav'nly Foe: