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...3:16-17). The Destruction of Sennacherib By George Gordon (Lord) Byron (1788-1824) The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were...when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strewn. For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face...

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...AND MARK THE ANAPAESTS HERE (Assyrian is three syllables, by the way, not four): The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen on their spears was like stars on the sea, And the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Byron doesn't...

...Senacherib's unsuccessful siege of Jerusalem — his hubris dashed by pestilence: "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold / and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold." But Jerusalem was spared only for a little more than a century, and it was exceptional: Babylon fell...

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...of in the Assyrian annals. The scene is thus depicted by the English poet :-— " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with pnrple end gold Like the leave» of the forest when summer is That host with their banners at...

...noise warps my reading, as a restless schoolchild within me drones, 'The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold and his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold'12 - and, since boredom is catching, I prefer to work with other plateaus first. There is nothing...