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Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night	A
When great Poseidon's sudden veering wrath	B
Scattered the happy homeward floating Greeks	C
Like foam flakes off the waves the King of Crete	D
Held lofty commune with the dark Sea god	E
His brows were crowned with victory his cheeks	C
Were flushed with triumph but the mighty joy	F
Of Troy's destruction and his own great deeds	G
Passed for the thoughts of home were dearer now	H
And sweet the memory of wife and child	I
And weary now the ten long foreign years	J
And terrible the doubt of short delay	K
More terrible O Gods he cried but stopped	L
Then raised his voice upon the storm and prayed	M
O thou if injured injured not by me	N
Poseidon whom sea deities obey	K
And mortals worship hear me for indeed	O
It was our oath to aid the cause of Greece	P
Not unespoused by Gods and most of all	Q
By thee if gentle currents havens calm	R
Fair winds and prosperous voyage and the Shape	S
Impersonate in many a perilous hour	T
Both in the stately councils of the Kings	U
And when the husky battle murmured thick	V
May testify of services performed	W
But now the seas are haggard with thy wrath	B
Thy breath is tempest never at the shores	X
Of hostile Ilium did thy stormful brows	Y
Betray such fierce magnificence not even	Z
On that wild day when mad with torch and glare	A2
The frantic crowds with eyes like starving wolves	B2
Burst from their ports impregnable a stream	C2
Of headlong fury toward the hissing deep	D2
Where then full armed I stood in guard compact	E2
Beside thee and alone with brand and spear	F2
We held at bay the swarming brood and poured	G2
Blood of choice warriors on the foot ploughed sands	H2
Thou meantime dark with conflict as a cloud	I2
That thickens in the bosom of the West	J2
Over quenched sunset circled round with flame	K2
Huge as a billow running from the winds	L2
Long distances till with black shipwreck swoln	Z
It flings its angry mane about the sky	M2
And like that billow heaving ere it burst	N2
And like that cloud urged by impulsive storm	O2
With charge of thunder lightning and the drench	P2
Of torrents thou in all thy majesty	N
Of mightiness didst fall upon the war	Q2
Remember that great moment Nor forget	R2
The aid I gave thee how my ready spear	F2
Flew swiftly seconding thy mortal stroke	S2
Where'er the press was hottest never slacked	E2
My arm its duty nor mine eye its aim	K2
Though terribly they compassed us and stood	T2
Thick as an Autumn forest whose brown hair	A2
Lustrous with sunlight by the still increase	P
Of heat to glowing heat conceives like zeal	U2
Of radiance till at the pitch of noon	Z
'Tis seized with conflagration and distends	P
Horridly over leagues of doom'd domain	Z
Mingling the screams of birds the cries of brutes	P
The wail of creatures in the covert pent	V2
Howls yells and shrieks of agony the hiss	P
Of seething sap and crash of falling boughs	P
Together in its dull voracious roar	Q2
So closely and so fearfully they throng'd	W2
Savage with phantasies of victory	N
A sea of dusky shapes for day had passed	X2
And night fell on their darkened faces red	Y2
With fight and torchflare shrill the resonant air	A2
With eager shouts and hoarse with angry groans	P
While over all the dense and sullen boom	Z2
The din and murmur of the myriads	P
Rolled with its awful intervals as though	A3
The battle breathed or as against the shore	Q2
Waves gather back to heave themselves anew	Z
That night sleep dropped not from the dreary skies	P
Nor could the prowess of our chiefs oppose	P
That sea of raging men But what were they	K
Or what is man opposed to thee Its hopes	P
Are wrecks himself the drowning drifting weed	O
That wanders on thy waters such as I	M2
Who see the scattered remnants of my fleet	D
Remembering the day when first we sailed	B3
Each glad ship shining like the morning star	C3
With promise for the world Oh such as I	M2
Thus darkly drifting on the drowning waves	P
O God of waters 'tis a dreadful thing	D3
To suffer for an evil unrevealed	B3
Dreadful it is to hear the perishing cry	M2
Of those we love the silence that succeeds	P
How dreadful Still my trust is fixed on thee	N
For those that still remain and for myself	E3
And if I hear thy swift foam snorting steeds	P
Drawing thy dusky chariot as in	Z
The pauses of the wind I seem to hear	F3
Deaf thou art not to my entreating prayer	A2
Haste then to give us help for closely now	Z
Crete whispers in my ears and all my blood	B3
Runs keen and warm for home and I have yearning	D3
Such yearning as I never felt before	Q2
To see again my wife my little son	Z
My Queen my pretty nursling of five years	P
The darling of my hopes our dearest pledge	G3
Of marriage and our brightest prize of love	H3
Whose parting cry rings clearest in my heart	B3
O lay this horror much offended God	B3
And making all as fair and firm as when	Z
We trusted to thy mighty depths of old	B3
I vow to sacrifice the first whom Zeus	P
Shall prompt to hail us from the white seashore	Q2
And welcome our return to royal Crete	B3
An offering Poseidon unto thee	N
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Amid the din of elemental strife	I3
No voice may pierce but Deity supreme	C2
And Deity supreme alone can hear	F3
Above the hurricane's discordant shrieks	P
The cry of agonized humanity	N
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Not unappeased was He who smites the waves	P
When to his stormy ears the warrior's vow	Z
Entered and from his foamy pinnacle	J3
Tumultuous he beheld the prostrate form	O2
And knew the mighty heart Awhile he gazed	B3
As doubtful of his purpose and the storm	O2
Conscious of that divine debate withheld	B3
Its fierce emotion in the luminous gloom	Z2
Of those so dark irradiating eyes	P
Beneath whose wavering lustre shone revealed	B3
The tumult of the purpling deeps and all	Q
The throbbing of the tempest as it paused	B3
Slowly subsiding seeming to await	B3
The sudden signal as a faithful hound	B3
Pants with the forepaws stretched before its nose	P
Athwart the greensward after an eager chase	P
Its hot tongue thrust to cool its foamy jaws	P
Open to let the swift breath come and go	A3
Its quick interrogating eyes fixed keen	Z
Upon the huntsman's countenance and ever	T
Lashing its sharp impatient tail with haste	B3
Prompt at the slightest sign to scour away	K
And hang itself afresh by the bleeding fangs	P
Upon the neck of some death singled stag	K3
Whose royal antlers eyes and stumbling knees	P
Will supplicate the Gods in mute despair	A2
This time not mute nor yet in vain this time	L3
For still the burden of the earnest voice	P
And all the vivid glories it revoked	B3
Sank in the God with that absorbed suspense	P
Felt only by the Olympians whose minds	P
Unbounded like our mortal brain perceive	M3
All things complete the end the aim of all	Q
To whom the crown and consequence of deeds	P
Are ever present with the deed itself	E3
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And now the pouring surges vast and smooth	N3
Grew weary of restraint and heaved themselves	P
Headlong beneath him breaking at his feet	B3
With wild importunate cries and angry wail	O3
Like crowds that shout for bread and hunger more	Q2
And now the surface of their rolling backs	P
Was ridged with foam topt furrows rising high	M2
And dashing wildly like to fiery steeds	P
Fresh from the Thracian or Thessalian plains	P
High blooded mares just tempering to the bit	B3
Whose manes at full speed stream upon the winds	P
And in whose delicate nostrils when the gust	B3
Breathes of their native plains they ramp and rear	F2
Frothing the curb and bounding from the earth	P3
As though the Sun god's chariot alone	Z
Were fit to follow in their flashing track	Q3
Anon with gathering stature to the height	B3
Of those colossal giants doomed long since	P
To torturous grief and penance that assailed	B3
The sky throned courts of Zeus and climbing dared	B3
For once in a world the Olympic wrath and braved	B3
The electric spirit which from his clenching hand	B3
Pierces the dark veined earth and with a touch	R3
Is death to mortals fearfully they grew	Z

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