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TO HIS NATIVE COUNTRY.
A defert .lies where'er they go.
Before them march pale Terror and Alarms.
The Princes of the South prepare
Their thoufand thoufands for the war ;
Againft thee, Cyrus, they combine ;
The North and South their forces join.
To crufh thee in the duft :
But thou art fafe ; Achates draws
His fword with thine, and backs thy caufe ;
Yes, thou art doubly fafe, thy caufe is juft.
With dread the Turks have oft beheld
4tais fword wide waving o'er the field j
As oft thefe fons of carnage fled
O'er mountains of their kindred dead.
When all the fury of the fight
With wrath redoubled rag'd ;
When man to man, with giant-might.
For all that's dear engag'd ;
When all was thunder, fmoke, and fire;
When from their native rocks the frighted fprings
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