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b
e not too
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ighty with your t
ongue; bet
ter yet that you
wield a swor
d with pro
wess! Take he
ed from th
is story!" (193).
But what is the
moral of this story
? Does n
ot th
e writing of this h
istory itself tell us
that th
is
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where he could not be with hi
s sword? Elsewhere the poet s
peaks
conquest's own eulogy: "Through history t
hose m
en are heroe
s whose deeds ha
ve been given pr
oper recognition by the his
tor
ian's pen"
(35). He alread
y senses
that the pe
n does not rend
e
r the
glory of the sword
immutabl
e; in this hi
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t, the pen