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Such thews of men: the midmost and the highest Was Arac: all about his motion clungThe shadow of his sister, as the beamOf the East, that play'd upon them, made them glance Like those three stars of the airy Giant's zone,That glitter burnished by the frosty dark;And as the fiery Sirius alters hue,And bickers into red and emerald, shoneTheir morions, wash'd with morning, as they came.
 And I that prated peace, when first I heard War-music, felt the blind wildbeast of force Whose home is in the sinews of a man Stir in me as to strike: then took the king His three broad sons; with now a wandering hand And now a pointed finger, told them all:A common light of smiles at our disguise Broke from their lips, and Arac turning said;
 'Our land invaded, life and soul! himself
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