So heathen against heathen, tribe ‘gainst tribe,
Streamed onward in embattled waves of war;
Not that so vast, to immemorial age
Sacred, of Scythic birth, which flood–like surged
Far round the mount Armenian; nor so wide
Which once the crutch
(Philip James Bailey)
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