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SONGS OF EXILE

Are these two that fight together.
And the Ethiopian forces
Overspread the field of battle,
And the Edomites pursue them.


First in battle the foot-soldier
Comes to fight upon the highway,
Ever marching straight before him,
But to capture moving sideways,
Straying not from off his pathway,
Neither do his steps go backwards;
He may leap at the beginning
Anywhere within three chequers.
Should he take his steps in battle
Far away unto the eighth row,
Then a Queen to all appearance
He becomes and fights as she does.
And the Queen directs her moving

As she will to any quarter.