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Zeus and ye Gods that rule in heaven above	A
Is there naught holy or to your hard hearts dear	B
Have ye forgotten utterly to love	A
Or to be kind in that untroubled sphere	B
If aught ye cherish still by that I pray	C
Destroy the life that ye have cursed this day	C
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No ye are cold The pains of tenderness	D
Must tease not your enjoyed tranquillity	C
How should ye care to succour or to bless	E
Who have not sorrowed and who cannot die	C
Wise Gods learn one thing from ephemeral breath	F
They only love who know the face of Death	F
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When did ye ever come as men to earth	G
Save to bring plagues war misery to us	D
O vanity We have smiled yet know that birth	G
Looks but to death through passions piteous	D
While calm ye live and when these human seas	D
Wail in your ears feel deepest your own ease	D
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Yet envied ye my keener happiness	D
That ye must quench it in such triple gloom	H
For by a mercy more than merciless	D
Slaying my children in their guiltless bloom	H
Me ye slew not but suffered as in scorn	I
Accurst to linger in a land forlorn	I
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Where are they now those dead that once were mine	J
I saw them in their beauty I thought them fair	K
And in my pride dreamed they were half divine	J
An idle boast I made to my despair	K
For in that hour they died and I receive	L
A fate thrice bitterer since I live to grieve ''	-
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So on the mountains hapless Niobe	M
With feverish longing and rebellion vain	N
Bewailed herself swift plunged in misery	O
Bewailed her children by dread deities slain	N
Those jealous deities whose bright shafts ne'er miss	D
Phoebus and his stern sister Artemis	D
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Nine days those bodies of unhappy death	F
Lay in their beauty by Ismenus flood	C
For on sad Thebes Zeus breathed an heavy breath	F
And men became as marble where they stood	C
Nine suns their unregarded splendour shed	C
And still unburied lay those lovely dead	C
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But on the tenth day the high Gods took pity	O
And in the fall of evening from their seats	D
In heaven came down toward the silent city	O
The still forsaken ways the unechoing streets	D
And through the twilight heavenly faces shone	P
But no man marvelled all yet slumbered on	Q
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The king sat brooding in his shadowy halls	D
His counsellors ranged round him With fixed eyes	D
Set brows and steadfast gaze on the dim walls	D
He sat amid a kingdom's mockeries	D
And seemed revolving many a thought of gloom	H
Though his mind slept and knew not its own doom	H
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The Gods beheld unheeding and went through	R
And came to the stream's side where slept the dead	C
And while stars gathered in the lonely blue	R
They buried them with haste and nothing said	C
Feeling perchance some shadow of human years	D
And what in heaven is nearest unto tears	D
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So their toil ended the Gods passed again	S
Through the deep night to pale Olympus hill	T
But in their passing breathed upon all men	S
And loosed the heavy trance that held them chill	T
Slowly night waned the quiet dawn arose	D
And Thebes awoke to daylight and her woes	D
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But Niobe the mother desolate	C
Enduring not to see her home forlorn	I
To wander through the vacant halls that late	C
Echoed with voice and laughter all the morn	I
A homeless queen went sorrowing o'er the hills	D
Alone with the great burden of her ills	D
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There as she wept a sleep was sealed on her	U
Yet not such sleep as can in peace forget	C
The strivings vain of hands that cannot stir	U
And swelling passion poisoned with regret	C
And piercing memory in their dark control	V
Possess with torment her imprisoned soul	V
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She clouded in her marble seeming cold	C
Majestically dumb augustly calm	W
Yet feeling through all bonds that round her fold	C
A nameless fever that can find no balm	W
A grief that kindles all her heart to fire	U
The crying of a tyrannous desire	U
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Remains for ever mute for ever still	T
Thebes marvels gazing at the stony thing	X
And deems it lifeless as the barren hill	T
To which the winds and rains no bloom can bring	X
Yet under that calm front burns deeper woe	Y
Than ever Thebes with all her hearts can know	Y
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No hope she sees in any springtime now	Z
But it is buried in with the autumn leaves	D
Yet when day burns upon her weary brow	Z
Deadened to her deep pain she scarcely grieves	D
And burdened with the glory of that great light	C
Almost forgets it brought her children night	C
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But when the pale moon makes her splendour bare	K
Terrible in the beauty of cold beams	D
The radiance falls on the mute image there	K
And Niobe awakens from her dreams	D
Those subtle arrows search her soul with pain	N
Tenfold more cruel from her children's bane	N
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Remembering their dead faces she would sigh	C
But the pure marble brooks no sound of grief	A2
She only lives to sorrow silently	O
And in despair still hope some last relief	A2
The Gods are stern and they to those long years	D
Ordained an immortality of tears	D

Robert Laurence Binyon

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