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Poems

By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

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CLXXIV
THREE HELPERS IN BATTLE

I have not been as Joshua when he fought
The hosts of Amalek in the valley found.
My voice hath never, like a trumpet sound,
Victory for the falling victors wrought.
But I, with Aaron, faint yet unafraid,
Held up the hands of Moses while he prayed.