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What Place Is Besieged?

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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