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"LET US TURN HITHERWARD OUR BARK.”

"LET us turn hitherward our bark," they cried, "And, 'mid the blisses of this happy isle,

Past toil forgetting and to come, abide
In joyfulness awhile.

And then, refreshed, our tasks resume again,
If other tasks we yet are bound unto,
Combing the hoary tresses of the main
With sharp swift keel anew."

O heroes, that had once a nobler aim,

O heroes, sprung from many a god-like line, What will ye do, unmindful of your fame,

And of your race divine?

Ω πέπονες, κάκ ̓ ἐλέγχε, ̓Αχαιίδες, οὐκέτ' Αχαιοί.

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QUIN huc," fremebant, "dirigimus ratem:

Hic, dote læti divitis insulæ,

Paullisper hæremus, futuri

Nec memores operis, nec acti:

"Curas refecti cras iterabimus,

Si qua supersunt emeritis novæ :
Pexisse pernices acuta

Canitiem pelagi carina."

O rebus olim nobilioribus

Pares origo Dî quibus ac Deæ

Heröes! oblitine famæ

Hæc struitis, generisque summi?

But they, by these prevailing voices now
Lured, evermore draw nearer to the land,
Nor saw the wrecks of many a goodly prow,
That strewed that fatal strand;

Or seeing, feared not-warning taking none From the plain doom of all who went before, Whose bones lay bleaching in the wind and sun, And whitened all the shore.

R. C. TRENCH.

Atqui propinquant jam magis ac magis,

Ducti magistra voce, solum : neque

Videre prorarum nefandas

Fragmina nobilium per oras;

Vidisse seu non pœnitet-ominis

Incuriosos tot præëuntium,

Quorum ossa sol siccantque venti,

Candet adhuc quibus omnis ora.

CENONE.

O MOTHER, hear me yet before I die.
Hear me, O earth. I will not die alone,
Lest their shrill happy laughter come to me
Walking the cold and starless road of Death
Uncomforted, leaving my ancient love
With the Greek woman. I will rise and go
Down into Troy, and ere the stars come forth
Talk with the wild Cassandra, for she says
A fire dances before her, and a sound
Rings ever in her ears of armed men.
What this may be I know not, but I know
That, wheresoe'er I am by night and day,
All earth and air seem only burning fire.

TENNYSON.

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