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WHAT PLACE IS BESIEGED?

WHAT place is besieged, and vainly tries to raise the          siege?

Lo! I send to that place a commander, swift, brave,          immortal;

And with him horse and foot—and parks of artillery,

And artillerymen, the deadliest that ever fired gun.

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