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A Lay Made About the Year Of The City (14)
2023-12-06XIV For aged folks on crutches, And women great with child, And mothers sobbing over babes That clung to them and smiled, And sick men borne in litter...
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2023-12-06XV And droves of mules and asses Laden with skins of wine, And endless flocks of goats and sheep, And endless herds of kine, And endless trains of wag...
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A Lay Made About the Year Of The City (16)
2023-12-06XVI Now, from the rock Tarpeian, Could the wan burghers spy The line of blazing villages Red in the midnight sky. The Fathers of the City, They sat al...
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A Lay Made About the Year Of The City (17)
2023-12-06XVII To eastward and to westward Have spread the Tuscan bands； Nor house, nor fence, nor dovecote In Crustumerium stands. Verbenna down to Ostia Hath ...
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A Lay Made About the Year Of The City (18)
2023-12-06XVIII I wis, in all the Senate, There was no heart so bold, But sore it ached, and fast it beat, When that ill news was told. Forthwith up rose the Co...
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2023-12-06XIX They held a council standing, Before the River-Gate； Short time was there, ye well may guess, For musing or debate. Out spake the Consul roundly： ...
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A Lay Made About the Year Of The City (20)
2023-12-06XX Just then a scout came flying, All wild with haste and fear： ``To arms！ to arms！ Sir Consul： Lars Porsena is here.'' On the low hills to we...
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A Lay Made About the Year Of The City (21)
2023-12-06XXI And nearer fast and nearer Doth the red whirlwind come； And louder still and still more loud, From underneath that rolling cloud, Is heard the tru...
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A Lay Made About the Year Of The City (22)
2023-12-06XXII And plainly and more plainly, Above that glimmering line, Now might ye see the banners Of twelve fair cities shine； But the banner of proud Clusi...
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2023-12-06XXIII And plainly and more plainly Now might the burghers know, By port and vest, by horse and crest, Each warlike Lucumo. There Cilnius of Arretium O...