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...flows ; She eyes the clear crystalline well, And tastes it as it goes. Gray. THE DYING GLADIATOR.1 I SEE before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side, the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash,...

...not, for his own life, spare his fallen foe — that foe, perhaps, his countryman and his friend. " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low : And through his sides the last drops ebbing slow From the red gash fall heavy, one by one, Like the first...

...language of poetry, of what this ancient and unknown sculptor has so well expressed in marble — " I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavily, one by one, Like the...

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...maws Of worms — on battle-plains or listed spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot. I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon...agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first...

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...observed ; they add much to the effect of the passage. Commence in a deep tone, and slowly. 35 ailnfio p. I see before me"' the Gladiator lie : | He leans upon...manly brow Consents to death,"' but conquers agony j"'And his droop'd head"' sinks"' gradually"' low,"' retard. And through his side"' the last drops,"'...