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Quotation from The Destruction of Sennacherib by Lord Byron
“The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold”
The Destruction of Sennacherib, Stanza 1 (Gutenberg #21811: The Works of Lord Byron, Poetry, Vol. 3, ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1900))
The famous opening simile of the invading army.
Citation: "The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold" — Lord Byron, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Stanza 1 (Gutenberg #21811: The Works of Lord Byron, Poetry, Vol. 3, ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1900)). (id the-destruction-of-sennacherib-q1)
