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“Thus on Polyxena, that beauteous maid, last solace of her mother’s age and care, when doom’d to die by fierce Achilles’ shade, the cruel Pyrrhus hasted brand to bare:

But she (a patient lamb by death waylaid), with the calm glances which serene the air, casts on her mother, mad with grief, her eyes and silent waits that awesome sacrifice.

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