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“Linèd the rempart groups of trembling fair, whom hopes and fears alternate heat and freeze, mothers and sisters, wives and brides in pray’er, with fasts and pilgrim-vows the Heav’ens to please. And now the Squadrons wont the war to dare, affront the serrièd hosts of enemies, who meet this onset with a mighty shout; while all are whelmed in dreadful direful doubt.