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Dead is he Yes our stranger guest said dead	A
said it by noonday when it seemed a thing	B
most natural and so indifferent	C
as if the tale ran that a while ago	D
there died a man I talked with a chance hour	E
when he by chance was near me If I spoke	F
Good news for us but ill news for the dead	A
when the gods sweep a villain down to them	G
'twas the prompt trick of words like a pat phrase	H
from some one other's song found on the lips	I
and used because 'tis there for through all day	J
the news seemed neither good nor ill to me	K
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And now when day with all its useless talk	L
and useless smiles and idiots' prying eyes	M
that impotently peer into one's life	N
when day with all its seemly lying shows	O
has gone its way and left pleased fools to sleep	P
while weary mummers taking off the mask	Q
discern that face themselves forgot anon	R
and sitting in the lap of sheltering night	S
learn their own secrets from her even now	R
does it seem either good or ill to me	K
No but mere strange	T
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And this most strange of all	U
that I care nothing	B
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Nay how wild thought grows	O
Meseems one came and told of Jason's death	V
but 'twas a dream Else should I wondering thus	W
reck not of him nor with the virulent hate	X
that should be mine against mine enemy	K
nor with that weakness which sometimes I feared	Y
should this day make me not remembering Glauc	B
envy him to death as though he had died mine	R
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Can he be dead It were so strange a world	Z
with him not in it	A2
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Dimly I recall	U
some prophecy a god breathed by my mouth	B2
It could not err What was it For I think	B
it told his death	V
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Has a god come to me	K
Is it thou my Hecate How know I all	U
For I know all as if from long ago	B
and I know all beholding instantly	K
Is not that he arisen through the mists	C2
a lean and haggard man rough round the eyes	M
dull and with no scorn left upon his lip	D2
decayed out of his goodliness and strength	E2
a wanned and broken image of a god	F2
dim counterfeit of Jason heavily	K
wearing the name of him and memories	G2
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And lo he rests with lax and careless limbs	H2
on the loose sandbed wind heaped round his ship	D2
that rots in sloth like him and props his head	A
on a half buried fallen spar The sea	K
climbing the beach towards him seethes and frets	I2
and on the verge two sunned and shadowed clouds	J2
take shapes of notched rock islands and his thoughts	K2
drift languid to the steep Symplegades	K2
and the sound of waters crashing at their base	K2
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Su d wsper eikos katqanei kakos kakws Argous kara son leiyanw peplhgmenos EUR Med	A
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And now he speaks out to his loneliness	K2
I was afraid and careful but she laughed	L2
'Love steers' she said and when the rocks were far	M2
grey twinkling spots in distance suddenly	K
her face grew white and looking back to them	G
she said 'Oh love a god has whispered me	K
'twere well had we died there for strange mad woes	K2
are waiting for us in your Greece' and then	R
she tossed her head back while her brown hair streamed	N2
gold in the wind and sun and her face glowed	O2
with daring beauty 'What of woes' she cried	P2
'if only they leave time for love enough '	-
But what a fire and flush It took one's breath	V
And then he lay half musing half adoze	K2
shadows of me went misty through his sight	S
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And bye and bye he roused and cried Oh dolt	S
Glauc was never half so beautiful	Q2
Then under part closed lids remembering her	E
Poor Glauc a sweet face and yet methinks	K2
she might have wearied me and suddenly	K
smiting the sand awhirl with his angry hand	S
scorned at himself What god befooled my wits	K2
to dream my fancy for her yellow curls	K2
and milk white softness subtle policy	K
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Wealth and a royal bride but what beyond	S
Medea with her skills her presciences	K
man's wisdom woman's craft her rage of love	R2
that gave her to serve me strength next divine	R
Medea would have made me what I would	S
Glauc but what she could I schemed amiss	K
and earned the curses the gods send on fools	K
Ruined ruined A laughing stock to foes	K
No man so mean but he may pity me	K
no man so wretched but will keep aloof	S2
lest the curse upon me make him wretcheder	E
Ruined	S
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And lo I see him hide his face	K
like a man who'll weep with passion but to him	T2
the passion comes not only slow few tears	K
of one too weary And from the great field	S
where the boys race he hears their jubilant shout	S
hum through the distance and he sighs Ah me	K
she might have spared the children left me them	G
no sons no sons to stand about me now	R
and prosper me and tend me bye and bye	U2
in faltering age and keep my name on earth	V2
when I shall be departed out of sight	S
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And the shout hummed louder forth and whirring past	S
a screaming sea bird flapped out to the bay	J
and listlessly he watched it dip and rise	K
till it skimmed out of sight so small a speck	B
as a mayfly on the brook and then he said	S
Fly forth fly forth bird fly to fierce Medea	S
where by great geus she sits queening it	S
belike a joyful mother of new sons	K
tell her she never loved me as she talked	S
else had no wrong at my hand shewn so great	S
tell her that she breaks oaths more than I broke	B
even so much as she seemed to love most	S
she who fits fondling in a husband's arms	K
while I am desolate And again he said	S
My house is perished with me ruined ruined	S
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At that he rose and muttering in his teeth	W2
still ruined ruined slowly paced the sands	K
then stood and gazing on the ragged hulk	B
cried Oh loathed tool of fiends that through all storms	K
and sundering waters borest me to Medea	S
rot rot accursed thing and petulant	S
pashed at the side	S
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Lo lo I see it part	S
a tottering spar it parts it falls it strikes	K
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He is prone on the sand the blood wells from his brow	R
he moans he speaks Medea's prophecy	K
See he has fainted	S
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Hush hush he has lain	R
with death and silence long now he wakes up	X2
Where is Medea Let her bind my head	S
Hush hush A sigh a breath He is dead	S
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	-
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Medea	S
What is it thou What thou this whimpering fool	Y2
this kind meek coward Sick for pity art thou	R
Or did the vision scare thee Out on me	K
do I drivel like a slight disconsolate girl	Z2
wailing her love	R2
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No not one foolish tear	E
that shamed my cheek welled up for any grief	A3
at his so pitiful lone end The touch	B3
of ancient memories and the woman's trick	B
of easy weeping took me unawares	K
but grief Why should I grieve	C3
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And yet for this	K
that he is dead He should still pine and dwine	R
hungry for his old lost strong food of life	N
vanished with me hungry for children's love	R2
hungry for me Ever to think of me	K
with love with hate what care I hate is love	R2
Ever to think and long Oh it was well	D3
Yea my new marriage hope has been achieved	S
for he did count me happy picture me	K
happy with geus he did dream of me	K
as all to geus that I was to him	T2
and to him nothing and did yearn for me	K
and know me lost we two so far apart	S
as dead and living I an envied wife	N
and he alone and childless Jason Jason	R
come back to earth live live for my revenge	E3
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But lo the man is dead I am forgotten	R
Forgotten something goes from life in that	S
as if oneself had died when the half self	F3
of one's true living time has slipped away	J
from reach of memories has ceased to know	R
that such a woman is	K
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A wondrous thing	B
to be so separate having been so near	E
near by hate last and once by so strong love	R2
Would love have kept us near if he had died	S
in the good days Tush I should have died too	S
we should have gone together hand in hand	S
and made dusk Hades glorious each to each	G3
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Ah me if then when through the fitful seas	K
we saw the great rocks glimmer and the crew	S
howled We are lost lo the Symplegades	K
too late to shu	S