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Compact and firm ; two Iron bars within,
Transverse, secured them, fastened by a boil;.

He near them look his stand, with legs astride,
That not in vain that weapon should be thrown ;
Then smote them in the midst, with all his st.reu£th(
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And brokc^3 botii hinges. Thundering on, the stone,
With force overwhelming, fe'l within the wall.
Loud rang the yielding gales, asunder riven,
Nor could the bat s retail’ them ; flew the plunks
In splintered fragments, scattered every way.23
InLo the pass illustrious Hector leaped :2
Gloomy as night, with aspect stern and dread.
Arrayed in brazen uauoply, he shone3'
l'errinc; in his hands two javelins keen.
And surely no one could have checked him then,
Except the gods, when through those gates lie sprang1
His eyes, tremendous, flashed with living fire;
And, turning to his host,8 he caked them all
To pass the barrier. They that call obeyed.
Some clambered o'er the wall, while others through
The portals poured ; and terror-struckthe Greeks
Fled to their hollow ships. Confusion dire,3
And uproar wild and horrible ensued,
H o m e r .

THE BESIEGED CASTLE.
[I van hoc, ati Fvr.yli^H knivbt has. been lu/.ui prisoner liy Lbe Nurmnns unri lies
woktkIc' 1 in a ekaaih-'r isi st cu.il 3c. under the oil c- r>f Rcbc-^cu, I lie Jewess, \vho is uLso
a prisoner. T o her ^UL-aiijj: j fills wemnti:; pui-i hiii:, he LqrJi^ ; |
, \ f mind, gentle maiden, Is mote dis! orbed by anxiety than my
X ' i . body with pain, From the speeches of these :ncn who
were my warders just now I learn that. .1 am a prisoner ; ami.
i f ! judge aright of the loud, hoarse voice which even now despatched
them hence on some military duty, I am in the castic of Eront-de-