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Here is a story, shall stir you! Stand up, Greeks dead and gone, / Who breasted, beat Barbarians, stemmed Persia rolling on, / Did the deed and saved the world, for the day was Marathon!
No man but did his manliest, kept rank and fought away / In his tribe and file: up, back, out, down -- was the spear-arm play: / Like a wind-whipt branchy wood, all spear-arms a-swing that day!