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Boiling about him, swarming round the Bay, dense crowds glad gather’d and enjoy’d the sight: Caftans of finest purple glisten gay; glance splendid robes with silken tissue dight: In lieu of warrior lance, and harsegaye and bow whose burnisht cusps mock Luna’s light; aloft the revellers bear the palmy bough, the fittest crown that decks the conqueror’s brow.