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What Place Is Besieged?

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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 artillery-men, the deadliest that ever fired gun.

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