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Ode of Ethiopia

18 Oy! The land of whirring wings,
which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia,
that sends ambassadors by sea,
in papyrus vessels upon the water.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall
    and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide,
    a nation powerful and oppressive,
    whose land the rivers divide.

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