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I	A
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How died Melissa none dares shape in words	B
A woman who is wife despotic lords	C
Count faggot at the question Shall she live	D
Her son because his brows were black of her	E
Runs barking for his bread a fugitive	F
And Corinth frowns on them that feed the cur	E
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II	A
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There is no Corinth save the whip and curb	G
Of Corinth high Periander the superb	G
In magnanimity in rule severe	H
Up on his marble fortress tower he sits	I
The city under him a white yoked steer	H
That bears his heart for pulse his head for wits	I
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III	A
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Bloom of the generous fires of his fair Spring	J
Still coloured him when men forbore to sting	J
Admiring meekly where the ordered seeds	K
Of his good sovereignty showed gardens trim	L
And owning that the hoe he struck at weeds	K
Was author of the flowers raised face to him	L
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IV	F
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His Corinth to each mood subservient	M
In homage made he as an instrument	M
To yield him music with scarce touch of stops	N
He breathed it piped he moved it rose to fly	A
At whiles a bloodhorse racing till it drops	N
At whiles a crouching dog on him all eye	A
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V	F
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His wisdom men acknowledged only one	O
The creature issue of him Lycophron	O
That rebel with his mother in his brows	P
Contested such an infamous would foul	Q
Pirene Little heed where he might house	R
The prince gave hearing so the fox the owl	Q
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VI	A
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To prove the Gods benignant to his rule	S
The years which fasten rigid whom they cool	S
Reviewing saw him hold the seat of power	E
A grey one asked Who next nor answer had	T
One greyer pointed on the pallid hour	E
To come a river dried of waters glad	T
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VII	A
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For which of his male issue promised grip	U
To stride yon people with the curb and whip	U
This Lycophron he sole the father like	V
Fired prospect of a line in one strong tide	W
By right of mastery stern will to strike	V
Pride to support the stroke yea Godlike pride	W
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VIII	A
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Himself the prince beheld a failing fount	W
His line stretched back unto its holy mount	W
The thirsty onward waved for him no sign	O
Then stood before his vision that hard son	O
The seizure of a passion for his line	O
Impelled him to the path of Lycophron	O
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IX	R
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The youth was tossing pebbles in the sea	R
A figure shunned along the busy quay	R
Perforce of the harsh edict for who dared	W
Address him outcast Naming it he crossed	W
His father's look with look that proved them paired	W
For stiffness and another pebble tossed	W
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X	R
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An exile to the Island ere nightfall	X
He passed from sight from the hushed mouths of all	X
It had resemblance to a death and on	O
Against a coast where sapphire shattered white	W
The seasons rolled like troops of billows blown	O
To spraymist The prince gazed on capping night	W
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XI	R
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Deaf Age spake in his ear with shouts Thy son	O
Deep from his heart Life raved of work not done	O
He heard historic echoes moan his name	Y
As of the prince in whom the race had pause	R
Till Tyranny paternity became	Y
And him he hated loved he for the cause	R
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XII	R
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Not Lycophron the exile now appeared	W
But young Periander from the shadow cleared	W
That haunted his rebellious brows The prince	R
Grew bright for him saw youth if seeming loth	Z
Return and of pure pardon to convince	R
Despatched the messenger most dear with both	A2
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XIII	R
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His daughter from the exile's Island home	B2
Wrote as a flight of halcyons o'er the foam	B2
Sweet words her brother to his father bowed	W
Accepted his peace offering and rejoiced	W
To bring him back a prince the father vowed	W
Commanded man the oars the white sails hoist	W
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XIV	A
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He waved the fleet to strain its westward way	C2
On to the sea hued hills that crown the bay	C2
Soil of those hospitable islanders	R
Whom now his heart for honour to his blood	W
Thanked They should learn what boons a prince confers	R
When happiness enjoins him gratitude	W
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XV	A
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In watch upon the offing worn with haste	W
To see his youth revived and close embraced	W
Pardon who had subdued him who had gained	W
Surely the stoutest battle between two	D2
Since Titan pierced by young Apollo stained	W
Earth's breast the prince looked forth himself looked through	D2
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XVI	A
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Errors aforetime unperceived were bared	W
To be by his young masterful repaired	W
Renewed his great ideas gone to smoke	E2
His policy confirmed amid the surge	F2
Of States and people fretting at his yoke	E2
And lo the fleet brown flocked on the sea verge	F2
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XVII	A
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Oars pulled they streamed in harbour without cheer	H
For welcome shadowed round the heaving bier	G2
They whose approach in such rare pomp and stress	R
Of numbers the free islanders dismayed	W
At Tyranny come masking to oppress	R
Found Lycophron this breathless this lone laid	W
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XVIII	A
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Who smote the man thrown open to young joy	H2
The image of the mother of his boy	H2
Came forth from his unwary breast in wreaths	R
With eyes And shall a woman that extinct	W
Smite out of dust the Powerful who breathes	R
Her loved the son her served they lay close linked	W
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XIX	R
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Dead was he and demanding earth Demand	W
Sharper for vengeance of an instant hand	W
The Tyrant in the father heard him cry	A
And raged a plague to prove on free Hellenes	R
How prompt the Tyrant for the Persian dye	A
How black his Gods behind their marble screens	R

George Meredith

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