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Full of ecstatic wonder at the sight, / I view'd Bellona's minions, famed in fight; / A brotherhood, to whom the circling sun / No rivals yet beheld, since time begun. -- / But ah! the Muse despairs to mount their fame / Above the plaudits of historic Fame.
But now a foreign band the strain recalls -- / Stern Hannibal, that shook the Roman walls; / Achilles, famed in Homer's lasting lay, / The Trojan pair that kept their foes at bay; / Susa's proud rulers, a distinguish'd pair, / And he that pour'd the living storm of war / On the fallen thrones of Asia, till the main, / With awful voice, repell'd the conquering train.