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The Iliad - Homer ยท 63 words
He said; and on the chief descends amain, Increased with gore, and swelling with the slain. Then, murmuring from his beds, he boils, he raves, And a foam whitens on the purple waves. At every step, before Achilles stood The crimson surge, and deluged him with blood. Fear touchd the queen of heaven. she saw dismayd, She calld aloud, and summond Vulcans aid.
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