This Lesson's logo is Pizarro's cavalry

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Sing Muse-, but not of Venus and her chuck,

And amorous jousts in dainty lists of love,

Favors and forfeits won in Beauty's siege

By soft assaults of chamber gallantry;

But of the valiant deeds and worthy fame

Of those who far on surge-ensundered shores,

Bent the proud neck of Araucania's race

To Spain's stern yoke, by war's arbitrament.

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Due North and South the Chilean coastline runs,

Fronting along the West the Southern Main;

Upon the East a range of cloud-capped peaks

Shuts in the plainlands for a thousand leagues;

Midway between the North and South is where

Our scene of war is set; here that fierce tribe

I speak of dwells; mild Venus here no part

Has in men's lives; but Mars alone is lord.