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SILENUS	A
O Bacchus what a world of toil both now	B
And ere these limbs were overworn with age	C
Have I endured for thee First when thou fled st	D
The mountain nymphs who nursed thee driven afar	E
By the strange madness Juno sent upon thee	F
Then in the battle of the Sons of Earth	G
When I stood foot by foot close to thy side	H
No unpropitious fellow combatant	I
And driving through his shield my winged spear	J
Slew vast Enceladus Consider now	B
Is it a dream of which I speak to thee	F
By Jove it is not for you have the trophies	A
And now I suffer more than all before	K
For when I heard that Juno had devised	L
A tedious voyage for you I put to sea	F
With all my children quaint in search of you	M
And I myself stood on the beaked prow	B
And fixed the naked mast and all my boys	A
Leaning upon their oars with splash and strain	N
Made white with foam the green and purple sea	F
And so we sought you king We were sailing	O
Near Malea when an eastern wind arose	A
And drove us to this waste Aetnean rock	P
The one eyed children of the Ocean God	Q
The man destroying Cyclopses inhabit	R
On this wild shore their solitary caves	A
And one of these named Polypheme has caught us	A
To be his slaves and so for all delight	S
Of Bacchic sports sweet dance and melody	F
We keep this lawless giant s wandering flocks	A
My sons indeed on far declivities	A
Young things themselves tend on the youngling sheep	T
But I remain to fill the water casks	A
Or sweeping the hard floor or ministering	O
Some impious and abominable meal	U
To the fell Cyclops I am wearied of it	V
And now I must scrape up the littered floor	K
With this great iron rake so to receive	W
My absent master and his evening sheep	T
In a cave neat and clean Even now I see	A
My children tending the flocks hitherward	V
Ha what is this are your Sicinnian measures	A
Even now the same as when with dance and song	X
You brought young Bacchus to Althaea s halls	A
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CHORUS OF SATYRS	A
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STROPHE	W
Where has he of race divine	Y
Wandered in the winding rocks	A
Here the air is calm and fine	Y
For the father of the flocks	A
Here the grass is soft and sweet	V
And the river eddies meet	V
In the trough beside the cave	W
Bright as in their fountain wave	W
Neither here nor on the dew	V
Of the lawny uplands feeding	O
Oh you come a stone at you	V
Will I throw to mend your breeding	O
Get along you horned thing	O
Wild seditious rambling	O
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EPODE	V
An Iacchic melody	V
To the golden Aphrodite	V
Will I lift as erst did I	Z
Seeking her and her delight	V
With the Maenads whose white feet	V
To the music glance and fleet	V
Bacchus O beloved where	A2
Shaking wide thy yellow hair	A2
Wanderest thou alone afar	E
To the one eyed Cyclops we	V
Who by right thy servants are	E
Minister in misery	V
In these wretched goat skins clad	V
Far from thy delights and thee	V
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SILENUS	A
Be silent sons command the slaves to drive	W
The gathered flocks into the rock roofed cave	W
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CHORUS	A
Go But what needs this serious haste O father	B2
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SILENUS	A
I see a Grecian vessel on the coast	V
And thence the rowers with some general	C2
Approaching to this cave About their necks	A
Hang empty vessels as they wanted food	V
And water flasks Oh miserable strangers	A
Whence come they that they know not what and who	V
My master is approaching in ill hour	B2
The inhospitable roof of Polypheme	D2
And the Cyclopian jaw bone man destroying	O
Be silent Satyrs while I ask and hear	E2
Whence coming they arrive the Aetnean hill	F2
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ULYSSES	A
Friends can you show me some clear water spring	O
The remedy of our thirst Will any one	G2
Furnish with food seamen in want of it	V
Ha what is this We seem to be arrived	V
At the blithe court of Bacchus I observe	W
This sportive band of Satyrs near the caves	A
First let me greet the elder Hail	H2
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SILENUS	A
Hail thou	B
O Stranger tell thy country and thy race	A
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ULYSSES	A
The Ithacan Ulysses and the king	O
Of Cephalonia	G2
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SILENUS	A
Oh I know the man	G2
Wordy and shrewd the son of Sisyphus	A
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ULYSSES	A
I am the same but do not rail upon me	D2
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SILENUS	A
Whence sailing do you come to Sicily	D2
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ULYSSES	A
From Ilion and from the Trojan toils	A
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SILENUS	A
How touched you not at your paternal shore	K
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ULYSSES	A
The strength of tempests bore me here by force	A
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SILENUS	A
The self same accident occurred to me	D2
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ULYSSES	A
Were you then driven here by stress of weather	B2
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SILENUS	A
Following the Pirates who had kidnapped Bacchus	A
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ULYSSES	A
What land is this and who inhabit it	V
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SILENUS	A
Aetna the loftiest peak in Sicily	D2
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ULYSSES	A
And are there walls and tower surrounded towns	A
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SILENUS	A
There are not These lone rocks are bare of men	G2
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ULYSSES	A
And who possess the land the race of beasts	A
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SILENUS	A
Cyclops who live in caverns not in houses	A
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ULYSSES	A
Obeying whom Or is the state popular	B2
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SILENUS	A
Shepherds no one obeys any in aught	V
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ULYSSES	A
How live they do they sow the corn of Ceres	A
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SILENUS	A
On milk and cheese and on the flesh of sheep	T
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ULYSSES	A
Have they the Bromian drink from the vine s stream	D2
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SILENUS	A
Ah no they live in an ungracious land	V
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ULYSSES	A
And are they just to strangers hospitable	C2
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SILENUS	A
They think the sweetest thing a stranger brings	A
Is his own flesh	I2
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ULYSSES	A
What do they eat man s flesh	I2
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SILENUS	A
No one comes here who is not eaten up	J2
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ULYSSES	A
The Cyclops now where is he Not at home	D2
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SILENUS	A
Absent on Aetna hunting with his dogs	A
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ULYSSES	A
Know st thou what thou must do to aid us hence	A
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SILENUS	A
I know not we will help you all we can	G2
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ULYSSES	A
Provide us food of which we are in want	V
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SILENUS	A
Here is not anything as I said but meat	V
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ULYSSES	A
But meat is a sweet remedy for hunger	B2
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SILENUS	A
Cow s milk there is and store of curdled cheese	A
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ULYSSES	A
Bring out I would see all before I bargain	G2
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SILENUS	A
But how much gold will you engage to give	W
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ULYSSES	A
I bring no gold but Bacchic juice	A
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SILENUS	A
Oh joy	K2
Tis long since these dry lips were wet with wine	G2
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ULYSSES	A
Maron the son of the God gave it me	D2
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SILENUS	A
Whom I have nursed a baby in my arms	A
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ULYSSES	A
The son of Bacchus for your clearer knowledge	L2
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SILENUS	A
Have you it now or is it in the ship	M2
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ULYSSES	A
Old man this skin contains it which you see	A
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SILENUS	A
Why this would hardly be a mouthful for me	A
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ULYSSES	A
Nay twice as much as you can draw from thence	A
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SILENUS	A
You speak of a fair fountain sweet to me	A
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ULYSSES	A
Would you first taste of the unmingled wine	G2
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SILENUS	A
Tis just tasting invites the purchaser	B2
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ULYSSES	A
Here is the cup together with the skin	G2
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SILENUS	A
Pour that the draught may fillip my remembrance	A
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ULYSSES	A
See	A
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SILENUS	A
Papaiapax what a sweet smell it has	A
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ULYSSES	A
You see it then	G2
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SILENUS	A
By Jove no but I smell it	V
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ULYSSES	A
Taste that you may not praise it in words only	A
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SILENUS	A
Babai Great Bacchus calls me forth to dance	A
Joy joy	K2
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ULYSSES	A
Did it flow sweetly down your throat	V
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SILENUS	A
So that it tingled to my very nails	A
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ULYSSES	A
And in addition I will give you gold	V
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SILENUS	A
Let gold alone only unlock the cask	N2
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ULYSSES	A
Bring out some cheeses now or a young goat	V
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SILENUS	A
That will I do despising any master	B2
Yes let me drink one cup and I will give	W
All that the Cyclops feed upon their mountains	A
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CHORUS	A
Ye have taken Troy and laid your hands on Helen	G2
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ULYSSES	A
And utterly destroyed the race of Priam	D2
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SILENUS	A
The wanton wretch she was bewitched to see	A
The many coloured anklets and the chain	G2
Of woven gold which girt the neck of Paris	A
And so she left that good man Menelaus	A
There should be no more women in the world	V
But such as are reserved for me alone	G2
See here are sheep and here are goats Ulysses	A
Here are unsparing cheeses of pressed milk	O2
Take them depart with what good speed ye may	D2