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 1     I|    sends them to the fort that Sion hights;~The aged tyrant
 2     I|        To drive the Turks from Sion's bulwarks high,~And, full
 3     I|       hath~His worship true in Sion to restore,~And still preserved
 4     I|      our former thought, --~Of Sion's fort to scale the noble
 5     I|  prepared,~Closely to march to Sion's noble wall,~Unseen, unheard,
 6    II|     city small, that lies~From Sion's walls distant a little
 7    II|      got,~Be not thy death, or Sion's fall lamented,~Forbear
 8    II|         Go thou to Egypt, I at Sion stay,~The answer given thou
 9   III|      looked over,~From tops of Sion's towers, the hills and
10   III|     sacred weapons bent~Gainst Sion's fort, these gates and
11    IV|   Christians' might,~A prey he Sion to her conquering foes,~
12    IV|  should your armies raise~From Sion's walls, my speech tends
13    VI|      dearest friend.~ ~ LIX~At Sion was this princess entertained,~
14    IX|      forth to sell,~When, into Sion come, she marched right~
15    IX|      bands~The brazen gates of Sion's fort which close,~Who
16     X|     the Soldan great,~And into Sion brings the Prince by night~
17     X|        they from the height~Of Sion's Hill, till they approached
18     X|     eyes,~He turned at last to Sion's aged lord,~And calmed
19   XII|    danger free~Have brought to Sion that sweet nymph again,~
20  XIII|        So that the strength of Sion's walls to shake,~They should
21  XIII|     Shall slaughtered lie, and Sion's fort shall yield."~ ~
22 XVIII|        will I give my life for Sion's aid,~Here will I end my
23 XVIII| mountains dance the pines,~And Sion's towers and sacred temples
24   XIX| withstand,~A small revenge for Sion's fort o'erthrown,~That
25    XX|      and peers,~He spies great Sion's king amid the train,~And
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