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Poems

By Alfred Domett
  
  

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Oh ye that in Olympus dwell!
Ye gods! ye gods! our foes repel!
Their efforts crush, their fury quell,
And calm the rising storm!
See! see! how backward flash the rays—
A circle wide of dazzling blaze—
As high their glittering shields they raise
And round the city form!