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Come, but keep thy wonted state,
With even step and musing gait,
And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul setting in thine eyes;
There held in holy passion still,
Forget thyself to marble, till

4 With a sad leaden downward cast,
Thou fix them on the earth as fast.

MILTON.

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42. An ancient Battle poetically described.

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1 Hurry and Trepidation, Solemnity, Trepidation, Force and Eagerness; relaxes toward the 5 Plaintive; Narrative manner; deepens into Solemnity and Dread.

1 Now had the Grecians snatched a short repast, And buckled on their shining arms in haste. Troy roused as soon: for on that dreadful day, The fate of fathers, wives, and infants lay; 3 The gates unfolding pour forth all their train; Squadrons on squadrons cloud the dusty plain; Men, steeds, and chariots, shake the trembling ground;

The tumult thickens, and the skies resound. * And now with shouts the shocking armies

closed,

To lances lances, shields to shields opposed,

Host against host their shadowy legions drew; The sounding darts in iron tempests flew ; Victors and vanquished join promiscuous cries; Triumphant shouts and 5 dying groans arise; With streaming blood the slippery fields are dyed,

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And slaughtered heroes swell the dreadful tide. Long as the morning beams, increasing bright,

O'er heaven's clear azure spread the sacred light,
Commutual death the fate of war confounds,
Each adverse battle gored with equal wounds;
"But when the sun the height of heaven ascends,
The sire of gods his golden scales suspends
With equal hand. In these explores the fate
Of Greece and Troy, and poised the mighty
weight.

Pressed with its load the Grecian balance lies Low sunk on earth: the Trojan strikes the skies.

8 Then Jove from Ida's top his horrors spreads; The clouds burst dreadful o'er the Grecian

heads;

Thick lightnings flash; the muttering thunder

rolls;

Their strength he withers, and unmans their

souls;

Before his wrath the trembling hosts retire,

The god in terrors, and the skies on fire.

POPE'S HOMER.

43. A modern Battle poetically described.

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'Narrative Manner, with some Solemnity; Hurry and Trepidation; Eagerness, Solemnity and Dread, with a long pause at the end of the Stanza; Solemnity; 'Eagerness and Exultation; Plaintive expression.

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1 On Linden when the sun was low,

All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was the flow
Of Iser rolling rapidly.

2 But Linden saw another sight
When the drum beat at dead of night,
Commanding fires of death, to light
The darkness of her scenery.

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By torch and trumpet fast arrayed,
Each horseman drew his battle blade,
And furious every charger neighed
To join the dreadful revelry.

Then shook the hills with thunder riven,
Then rushed the steed to battle driven,
And louder than the bolts of heaven
Far flashed the red artillery.

5 But redder yet that light shall glow
On Linden's hills of stained snow,
And bloodier yet the torrent flow

Of Iser rolling rapidly.

'Tis morn, but scarce yon level sun
Can pierce the war clouds, rolling dun
Where furious Frank and fiery Hun

Shout in their sulphurous canopy.
The combat deepens :- on ye brave,
Who rush to glory or the grave;
Wave, Munich, all thy banners wave,

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And charge with all thy chivalry.

Few, few shall part where many meet,
The snow shall be their winding-sheet,
And every turf beneath their feet

Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.

CAMPBELL.

44. Neptune, in the form of Calchas, reproving and animating the Grecian Leaders at the Siege of Troy.

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Anger and Reproach, with Astonishment and Contempt; returns to the more unmixed expression of Reproach and 5 Anger; becomes Argumentative; rises into the tones of "Encouragement; occasionally changing into those of Contempt; › Admiration struggling with Grief; 10 Warning, "Alarm, 12 Determination.

'Oh! lasting infamy, oh! dire disgrace,
To chiefs of vigorous youth and manly race!
I trusted in the gods, and you, to see
Brave Greece victorious, and her navy free:

Ah no! the glorious combat you disclaim,
And one black day clouds all her former fame.
2 Heavens! what a prodigy these eyes survey,
Unseen, unthought, till this amazing day.

Fly we at length from Troy's oft conquered bands?

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And falls our fleet by such inglorious hands?
A rout undisciplined, a straggling train,
Not born to glories of the dusty plain,
Like frighted hinds from hill to hill pursued,
A prey to every savage of the wood?

4 Shall these, so late who trembled at your name Invade your camps, involve your ships in flame? A change so shameful, say what cause has wrought,

The soldiers' baseness, or the general's fault. 5 Fools! will you perish for your leader's vice The purchase infamy, and life the price?

'Tis not your cause Achilles' injured fame: Another's is the crime, but yours the shame. Grant that our chief offend through rage or lust,

Must you be cowards if your king's unjust?
'Prevent this evil and your country save:
Small thought retrieves the spirits of the brave.
Think, and subdue: on dastards dead to fame
I waste no anger, for they feel no shame :

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But you, the pride, the flower of all our host, My heart weeps blood to see your glory lost. 10 Nor deem this day, this battle, all you A day more black, a fate more vile, ensues.

lose;

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