An exchange sings the glories of a wrestling match:
They close with a mighty concussion and crash
Like the fall of a tree,
"Some great oak or poplar or Pelian ash"
(Homer's, that simile);
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Then their struggling and hugging "what pen can declare,"
The bending of backbones and mussing of hair,
Till a trip and a stumble, and down they go flat
On the much-abused mat.
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