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JOAN of ARC

BOOK THE SEVENTH.

STRONG were the English forts, by daily toilOf thousands rear'd on high, what time, elateWith fancied conquest, Salisbury bade riseThe amazing pile, from succour to includeBesieged Orleans. Round the city walls 5Stretch'd the wide circle, massy as the fenceErst by the fearful Roman on the boundsOf Caledonia rais'd, for, soul-enslavedHer hireling plunderers fear'd the car-borne chiefsWho rush'd from Morven down.Strong battlements 10Crested the mighty bulwark; on whose top Secure the charioteer might wheel along.

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