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Who breaks his country's sleep and stirs the slothful men to fight

'Go forth, our glory, go and gain the better fate I lack!'

'O, if a way there be at all, lead ye amid the air.'

'Mid the thin air: as oft the stars fly loose from heaven's roof.'

'Euryalus and Nisus first.'

'The Teucrians laughed to see him fall, and laughed to see him swim,
And laughed to see him spue the brine back from the heart of him.'

'So timely they the furrows cut, and all the sea upturn.'

'He welcomes them come back again with wealth of field and fold.
And solaces the weary men with plenteous friendly cheer.'

'Why was I not allowed to live without the bridal bed,
Sackless and free as beasts afield, with no woes wearied?