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LEONIDAS of Sparta, years gone by,
With but a bare three hundred of his braves,
In the ravine of famed Thermopylae
Held up the Persian army's endless waves.
Smiling, among the forest of his spears,
"Lay down your arms, the haughty Xerxes cried.
The Spartan's answer echoes down the years,
"Come here and take them !" So they fought, and died.