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Fleuron from 'Poems on Several Occasions' by William Broome, 2nd edition published in 1739

 

From the Eleventh Book of the Iliads of Homer.

In the Stile of MILTON.

 

Now gay Aurora from Tithonus' Bed
Rose in the Orient, to proclaim the Day
To Gods and Men: down to the Grecian Tents
Saturnian Jove sends Discord, red with Blood,
War in her Hand she grasps, Ensigns of War;
On brave Ulysses Ship she took her Stand,
The Center of the Host; that all might hear
Her dreadful Voice: her dreadful Voice she rais'd;
Jarring along the rattling Shores it ran

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