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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore

Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes
  

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Scarce had they closed this martial lay
When, flinging their light spears away,
The combatants, in broken ranks,
All breathless from the war-field fly;
And down, upon the velvet banks
And flowery slopes, exhausted lie,

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Like rosy huntresses of Thrace,
Resting at sunset from the chase.