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CHORUS O suitably attired in leather boots	A
Head of a traveller wherefore seeking whom	B
Whence by what way how purposed art thou come	C
To this well nightingaled vicinity	D
My object in inquiring is to know	E
But if you happen to be deaf and dumb	C
And do not understand a word I say	F
Then wave your hand to signify as much	G
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ALCMAEON I journeyed hither a Boetian road	H
CHORUS Sailing on horseback or with feet for oars	I
ALCMAEON Plying with speed my partnership of legs	J
CHORUS Beneath a shining or a rainy Zeus	K
ALCMAEON Mud's sister not himself adorns my shoes	L
CHORUS To learn your name would not displease me much	G
ALCMAEON Not all that men desire do they obtain	M
CHORUS Might I then hear at what thy presence shoots	A
ALCMAEON A shepherd's questioned mouth informed me that	N
CHORUS What for I know not yet what you will say	F
ALCMAEON Nor will you ever if you interrupt	O
CHORUS Proceed and I will hold my speechless tongue	P
ALCMAEON This house was Eriphyle's no one else's	Q
CHORUS Nor did he shame his throat with shameful lies	R
ALCMAEON May I then enter passing through the door	S
CHORUS Go chase into the house a lucky foot	T
And O my son be on the one hand good	U
And do not on the other hand be bad	V
For that is much the safest plan	W
ALCMAEON I go into the house with heels and speed	X
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CHORUS	Y
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Strophe	Z
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In speculation	A2
I would not willingly acquire a name	B2
For ill digested thought	C2
But after pondering much	G
To this conclusion I at last have come	C
LIFE IS UNCERTAIN	A2
This truth I have written deep	D2
In my reflective midriff	Z
On tablets not of wax	E2
Nor with a pen did I inscribe it there	F2
For many reasons LIFE I say IS NOT	G2
A STRANGER TO UNCERTAINTY	D
Not from the flight of omen yelling fowls	E2
This fact did I discover	H2
Nor did the Delphine tripod bark it out	I2
Nor yet Dodona	A2
Its native ingunuity sufficed	J2
My self taught diaphragm	K2
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Antistrophe	Z
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Why should I mention	A2
The Inachean daughter loved of Zeus	E2
Her whom of old the gods	E2
More provident than kind	L2
Provided with four hoofs two horns one tail	M2
A gift not asked for	S
And sent her forth to learn	A2
The unfamiliar science	E2
Of how to chew the cud	L2
She therefore all about the Argive fields	E2
Went cropping pale green grass and nettle tops	E2
Nor did they disagree with her	H2
But yet howe'er nutritious such repasts	E2
I do not hanker after	H2
Never may Cypris for her seat select	L2
My dappled liver	H2
Why should I mention Io Why indeed	L2
I have no notion why	N2
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Epode	L2
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But now does my boding heart	L2
Unhired unaccompanied sing	O2
A strain not meet for the dance	E2
Yes even the palace appears	E2
To my yoke of circular eyes	E2
The right nor omit I the left	L2
Like a slaughterhouse so to speak	P2
Garnished with woolly deaths	E2
And many sphipwrecks of cows	E2
I therefore in a Cissian strain lament	L2
And to the rapid	L2
Loud linen tattering thumps upon my chest	L2
Resounds in concert	L2
The battering of my unlucky head	L2
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ERIPHYLE within O I am smitten with a hatchet's jaw	Q2
And that in deed and not in word alone	A2
CHORUS I thought I heard a sound within the house	E2
Unlike the voice of one that jumps for joy	R2
ERIPHYLE He splits my skull not in a friendly way	F
Once more he purposes to kill me dead	L2
CHORUS I would not be reputed rash but yet	L2
I doubt if all be gay within the house	E2
ERIPHYLE O O another stroke that makes the third	L2
He stabs me to the heart against my wish	S2
CHORUS If that be so thy state of health is poor	T2
But thine arithmetic is quite correct	L2

Alfred Edward Housman

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