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<i>Hymn to the Dawn</i>

[For music, see p. 61]

/*
Wake, Aurora, Wake!
      Come, rosy-fingered goddess of the dawn,
      The saffron couch of old Tithonus scorning;
      Fling wide the golden portals of the morning,
      And bid the gloomy mists of night be gone.

Hail, Aurora, Hail!
      The dewy stars have sped their silent flight,
      The fuller glories of thy rays expecting;
      With rosy beauty from afar reflecting,
      Thy Orient steeds come panting into sight.

Rise, Apollo, Rise!
      Send forth thy healing rays to greet the world,
      Upon the lands thy blessed radiance streaming;
      Arise, and fling afar, in splendor gleaming,
      The banners of thy golden light unfurled.
*/

/#
Enter Æneas and Achates, on their way into the city, evidently attracted
hither by the singing. Æneas is resplendent in full armor. Achates wears
the Phrygian costume: long trousers of brown, a tunic of deep old blue, ornate
with embroidered patterns in gold and purple thread; over this a traveling
cloak of brown. He carries two spears. The maidens withdraw and
as their voices grow fainter Æneas and Achates kneel before the altar. The
light brightens. A bugle call in the distance rouses them from their devotion.
They arise. Enter Venus, dressed as a huntress.
#/

<i>Venus</i> (<i>Æneid</i>, I. 321-324):

/*
I crave your grace, good sirs. If my attendant maids
Have chanced to wander hither, quiver-girt, and clad
In tawny robes of fur, the trophies of the chase,
Or with triumphant shouts close pressing in pursuit
The foaming boar,--I fain would know their course.
*/

No-wraps and block quotes

Metrical drama requires careful attention to determine what needs no-wrap tags and what is wrappable. Here we have a hymn and this needs to be treated like poetry, using no-wrap and matching indentation with an even number of spaces. It is followed by a paragraph that is wrappable, but it is surrounded by block quotes due to being in a smaller size than the other text. The page concludes with some verse that again needs no-wraps. Note how each line begins with a capital letter and words that could fit at the end of a line are not moved up.

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