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Podas Okus	A
Am I waking Was I sleeping	B
Dearest are you watching yet	C
Traces on your cheeks of weeping	B
Glitter 'tis in vain you fret	C
Drifting ever drifting onward	D
In the glass the bright sand runs	A
Steadily and slowly downward	D
Hushed are all the Myrmidons	A
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	-
Has Automedon been banish'd	E
From his post beside my bed	F
Where has Agamemnon vanished	E
Where is warlike Diomed	E
Where is Nestor where Ulysses	A
Menelaus where is he	G
Call them not more dear your kisses	A
Than their prosings are to me	G
	-
Daylight fades and night must follow	H
Low where sea and sky combine	I
Droops the orb of great Apollo	H
Hostile god to me and mine	I
Through the tent's wide entrance streaming	B
In a flood of glory rare	J
Glides the golden sunset gleaming	B
On your golden gleaming hair	J
	-
Chide him not the leech who tarries	A
Surest aid were all too late	E
Surer far the shaft of Paris	A
Winged by Phoebus and by fate	E
When he crouch'd behind the gable	K
Had I once his features scann'd	E
Phoebus' self had scarce been able	K
To have nerved his trembling hand	E
	-
Blue eyed maiden dear Athena	L
Goddess chaste and wise and brave	M
From the snares of Polyxena	L
Thou would'st fain thy favourite save	M
Tell me is it not far better	N
That it should be as it is	A
Jove's behest we cannot fetter	N
Fate's decrees are always his	A
	-
Many seek for peace and riches	A
Length of days and life of ease	A
I have sought for one thing which is	A
Fairer unto me than these	A
Often too I've heard the story	G
In my boyhood of the doom	O
Which the fates assigned me Glory	G
Coupled with an early tomb	O
	-
Swift assault and sudden sally	G
Underneath the Trojan wall	P
Charge and countercharge and rally	G
War cry loud and trumpet call	P
Doubtful strain of desp'rate battle	K
Cut and thrust and grapple fierce	A
Swords that ring on shields that rattle	K
Blades that gash and darts that pierce	A
	-
I have done with these for ever	N
By the loud resounding sea	G
Where the reedy jav'lins quiver	N
There is now no place for me	G
Day by day our ranks diminish	Q
We are falling day by day	E
But our sons the strife will finish	Q
Where man tarries man must slay	E
	-
Life 'tis said to all men sweet is	A
Death to all must bitter be	G
Wherefore thus oh mother Thetis	A
None can baffle Jove's decree	G
I am ready I am willing	B
To resign my stormy life	R
Weary of this long blood spilling	B
Sated with this ceaseless strife	R
	-
Shorter doom I've pictured dimly	G
On a bed of crimson sand	E
Fighting hard and dying grimly	G
Silent lips and striking hand	E
But the toughest lives are brittle	K
And the bravest and the best	E
Lightly fall it matters little	K
Now I only long for rest	E
	-
I have seen enough of slaughter	N
Seen Scamander's torrent red	E
Seen hot blood poured out like water	N
Seen the champaign heaped with dead	E
Men will call me unrelenting	B
Pitiless vindictive stern	L
Few will raise a voice dissenting	B
Few will better things discern	L
	-
Speak the fires of life are reeling	B
Like the wildfires on the marsh	S
Was I to a friend unfeeling	B
Was I to a mistress harsh	S
Was there nought save bloodshed throbbing	B
In this heart and on this brow	T
Whisper girl in silence sobbing	B
Dead Patroclus answer thou	T
	-
Dry those violet orbs that glisten	L
Darling I have had my day	E
Place your hand in mine and listen	L
Ere the strong soul cleaves its way	E
Through the death mist hovering o'er me	G
As the stout ship cleaves the wave	M
To my fathers gone before me	G
To the gods who love the brave	M
	-
Courage we must part for certain	L
Shades that sink and shades that rise	A
Blending in a shroud like curtain	L
Gather o'er these weary eyes	A
O'er the fields we used to roam in	L
Brighter days and lighter cheer	U
Gathers thus the quiet gloaming	B
Now I ween the end is near	U
	-
For the hand that clasps your fingers	A
Closing in the death grip tight	E
Scarcely feels the warmth that lingers	A
Scarcely heeds the pressure light	E
While the failing pulse that alters	A
Changing 'neath a death chill damp	V
Flickers flutters flags and falters	A
Feebly like a waning lamp	V
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Think'st thou love 'twill chafe my ghost in	L
Hades' realm where heroes shine	L
Should I hear the shepherd boasting	B
To his Argive concubine	L
Let him boast the girlish victor	N
Let him brag not thus I trow	H
Were the laurels torn from Hector	N
Not so very long ago	H
	-
Does my voice sound thick and husky	G
Is my hand no longer warm	W
Round that neck where pearls look dusky	G
Let me once more wind my arm	X
Rest my head upon that shoulder	N
Where it rested oft of yore	Y
Warm and white yet seeming colder	N
Now than e'er it seem'd before	Y
	-
'Twas the fraud of Priam's daughter	N
Not the force of Priam's son	L
Slew me ask not why I sought her	N
'Twas my doom her work is done	L
Fairer far than she and dearer	N
By a thousandfold thou art	E
Come my own one nestle nearer	N
Cheating death of half his smart	E
	-
Slowly while your amber tresses	A
Shower down their golden rain	L
Let me drink those last caresses	A
Never to be felt again	L
Yet th' Elysian halls are spacious	A
Somewhere near me I may keep	Z
Room who knows The gods are gracious	A
Lay me lower let me sleep	Z
	-
Lower yet my senses wander	N
And my spirit seems to roll	A2
With the tide of swift Scamander	N
Rushing to a viewless goal	A2
In my ears like distant washing	G
Of the surf upon the shore	N
Drones a murmur faintly splashing	G
'Tis the splash of Charon's oar	N
	-
Lower yet my own Briseis	A
Denser shadows veil the light	E
Hush what is to be to be is	A
Close my eyes and say good night	E
Lightly lay your red lips kissing	G
On this cold mouth while your thumbs	A
Lie on these cold eyelids pressing	G
Pallas thus thy soldier comes	A

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