The alarm grows hotter, and the noise augments:
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{ The driving dust proclaims the danger near;
{ And first their friends, and then their foes, appear:
{ Their friends retreat; their foes pursue the rear.
The camp is filled with terror and affright:
The hissing shafts within the trench alight;
An undistinguished noise ascends the sky—
The shouts of those who kill, and groans of those who die.
But now the goddess mother, moved with grief,