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referred to, their Hellenic names are assigned to them, yet in the passing allusions made in this poem to the God of War or the Goddess of Morning, it was judged more agreeable to the general reader to designate those deities by the familiar names of Mars and Aurora, rather than by the Greek appellations of Ares and Eos.
MARTES, King of the wide plains which, north,
Of Tanais, pasture steeds for Scythian Mars, Forsook the simple ways
And Nomad tents of his unconquered fathers;
And in the fashion of the neighbouring Medes,
Built a great city girt with moat and wall,
And in the midst thereof
A regal palace dwarfing piles in Susa
With vast foundations rooted into earth,
And crested summits soaring into Heaven,
And gates of triple brass,
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Siege - proof as portals welded by the Cyclops.
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Led his High Priest, Teleutias, thro' his halls,
One day Omartes, in his pride of heart,
And chilled by frigid looks,
When counting on warm praise, asked - 'What is wanting? 14
'Where is beheld the palace of a king,
So stored with all that doth a king beseem;
The woofs of Phrygian looms,
The gold of Colchis, and the pearls of Ormus,
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'Couches of ivory sent from farthest Ind,
Sidonian crystal, and Corinthian Bronze,
Egypt's vast symbol gods,
'Stored not in tents that tremble to a gale,
And those imagined into men by Hellas;
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But chambers firm - based, as the Pyramids,
And breaking into spray
The surge of Time, as Gades breaks the ocean?'
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