123	Now strike the golden lyre again:
124	A louder yet, and yet a louder strain.
125	Break his bands of sleep asunder,
126	And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder.
127	Hark, hark, the horrid sound
128	Has rais’d up his head:
129	As wak’d from the dead,
130	And amaz’d, he stares around.
131	"Revenge, revenge!" Timotheus cries,
132	"See the Furies arise!
133	See the snakes that they rear,
134	How they hiss in their hair,
135	And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
136	Behold a ghastly band,
137	Each a torch in his hand!
138	Those are Grecian ghosts, that in battle were slain,
139	And unburied remain
140	Inglorious on the plain:
141	Give the vengeance due
142	To the valiant crew.
143	Behold how they toss their torches on high,
144	How they point to the Persian abodes,
145	And glitt’ring temples of their hostile gods!"
146	The princes applaud, with a furious joy;
147	And the king seiz’d a flambeau with zeal to destroy;
148	Thais led the way,
149	To light him to his prey,
150	And, like another Helen, fir’d another Troy.

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151	And the king seiz’d a flambeau with zeal to destroy;
152	Thais led the way,
153	To light him to his prey,
154	And, like another Helen, fir’d another Troy.

¹John Dryden. Alexander’s Feast; or, The Power of musique. London: J. Tonson, 1697. PR 3415 A39 1697A ROBA