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“See with stupendous heart the war to wage, driven by rage and grief the Father flies, paternal fondness urging battle-gage, fire in his heart and water in his eyes: Promise the sire’s distress, the soldier’s rage, a bloody deluge o’er the knees shall rise on ev’ry hostile deck: This Nyle shall fear, Indus shall sight it, and the Gange shall hear.