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Agamemnon (983-1018)

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The boats stern-cables touched the sands,
Has past from youth to oldness,
When under Ilion rushed the ship-borne bands.
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And from my eyes I learn
Being myself my witness their return.
Yet, all the same, without a lyre, my soul,
Itself its teacher too, chants from within
Erinus dirge, not having now the whole
Of Hopes dear boldness: nor my inwards sin
The heart thats rolled in whirls against the mind
Justly presageful of a fate behind.
But I pray things false, from my hope, may fall
Into the fate thats not-fulfilled-at-all!
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Especially at least, of health thats great
The terms insatiable: for, its weight
A neighbour, with a common wall between
Ever will sickness lean;
And destiny, her course pursuing straight,
Has struck mans ship against a reef unseen.
Now, when a portion, rather than the treasure,
Fear casts from sling, with peril in right measure,
It has not sunk the universal freight,
(With misery freighted over-full)
Nor has fear whelmed the hull.
Then too the gift of Zeus,
Two-handedly profuse,
Even from the furrows yield for yearly use
Has done away with famine, the disease;
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But blood of man to earth once falling-deadly, black
In times ere these,

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