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er own fair head, and sallying thro’ the gate,Hfad beat her foes with slaughter from the walls. “O miracle of women,” said the book, 35“O noble heart who, being strait-besieged By this wild king to force her to his wish, Nor bent, nor broke, nor shunn’d a soldier’s death,But now when all was lost or seem’d as lost—
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