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  "Lautrec the monarch sends with other bands;

  Yet not anew to war on Lombardy;

  But to deliver from rapacious hands

  The Church's head and limbs, already free,

  So slowly he performs the king's commands.

  Next, overrun by him the kingdom see,

  And his strong arms against the city turned,

  Wherein the Syren's body lies inurned.

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