Chapter 23 ALEXANDER'S FEAST

'Twas at the royal feast for Persia won

By Philip's warlike son:

Aloft in awful state

The godlike hero sate

On his imperial throne;

His valiant peers were placed around,

Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound

(So should desert in arms be crowned);

The lovely Thais by his side

Sate like a blooming Eastern bride

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