Assyrian Empire

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    The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold,
    And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold:
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    To Americans I hardly need to say,—
    “Westward the star of empire takes its way.”
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)