Assyrian Period

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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)

    Finally she grew quiet, and after that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage. Hours of this, a period of introspection, a space of retrospection, then a mixture of both. Out of this an awful calm.
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)