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Millions of flaming shighs
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Far round illumind hey ragd
Against t, and fierce h grasped arms
Clashe din of war,
o of heavn.
tood a far wop [ 670 ]
Belc entire
Sed sign
t in allic Ore,
th speed
A numerous Brigad end. As when Bands [ 675 ]
Of Pioners h Spade and Pickax armd
Forerun to trench a Field,
Or cast a Rampart. Mammon led them on,
Mammon, t erected Spirit t fell
From s [ 680 ]
ere al, admiring more
t, trodn Gold,
t divine or holy else enjoyd
In vision beatific: by
Men also, and by ion taught, [ 685 ]
Ransackd ter, and h impious hands
Rifld th
For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew
Opnd into the hill a spacious wound
And digd out ribs of Gold. Let none admire [ 690 ]
t ric soyle may best
Deserve t those
in mortal tell
Of Babel, and the works of Memphian Kings
Learn est Monuments of Fame, [ 695 ]
And Strengt are easily out-done
By Spirits reprobate, and in an hour
in an age t toyle
And hands innumerable scarce perform.