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13 - How Tryo in the night was taken and sacked with fire and slaughter - The Fall of Troy · The Fall of Troy

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  Speaker 1: So feasted they through Troy, and in their midst loud peeled.
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  Speaker 1: The flutes and pipes on every hand were song and dance,
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  Speaker 1: laughter and cries, confused of banqueteers. Beside the meats and
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  Speaker 1: wine they lifting in their hands the beaker's brim recklessly
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  Speaker 1: drank till heavier brain they grew till roll their fluctuant eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Now and again some mouth would babble the drunkard's broken words.
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  Speaker 1: The household gear, the very roof and wall seem'd as
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  Speaker 1: they rocked. All things they looked on seemed whirled in
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  Speaker 1: wild dance about their eyes. A veil of miss dropp'd,
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  Speaker 1: for the drunkard sight is dimmed and the wit dulled.
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  Speaker 1: When rise the fumes to the brain. And thus a
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  Speaker 1: heavy handed feaster cried for naught. The Damians mustered that
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  Speaker 1: great host. Hither fools they have wrought, not their intent,
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  Speaker 1: but with hopes an accomplished from their own town, Like
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  Speaker 1: silly boys or women they have fled, so cried e
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  Speaker 1: Trojan writ the fogged with wine fool nor discerned destruction
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  Speaker 1: at the doors when sleep had locked his fetters. Everywhere
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  Speaker 1: through Troy on folk fulfill'd of wine and meat. Then
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  Speaker 1: Sinon lifted high a blazing torch to show the argive
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  Speaker 1: men the splendor of fire, but fearfully the while his
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  Speaker 1: heart beat, lest the men of Troy might see it,
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  Speaker 1: and the plot be suddenly reveal'd. But all their beds,
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  Speaker 1: sleeping their last sleep, lay they heavy with wine. The
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  Speaker 1: hosts saw, and from Tannado set sail. Then nigh the
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  Speaker 1: horse drew. Sinon softly. He call'd full softly, that no
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  Speaker 1: man of Troy might hear, but only a Chaea's chiefs,
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  Speaker 1: far from whose eyes sleep hovered. So athirst were they
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  Speaker 1: for fight. They heard herd and to Odysseus all in
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  Speaker 1: climb their ears. He pad them urgently go forth, softly
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  Speaker 1: and fearlessly, and they obeyed the battle summons, pressing hot
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  Speaker 1: in haste to leap to earth. But in his subtlety
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  Speaker 1: he staved them from all thrusting eagerly forth, But first himself,
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  Speaker 1: with swift, unfaltering hands, helped of Apeeus. Here there, unparred
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  Speaker 1: the ribs of the horse of beams above the planks.
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  Speaker 1: A little raised his head and decay'd around on all sides.
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  Speaker 1: If haply he might descry one trojan waking Yet as
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  Speaker 1: when a wolf with hunger stung to heart comes from
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  Speaker 1: the hills and ravenous for flesh, draws nigh the flock
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  Speaker 1: penned in the wide folds, slinking past the man and
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  Speaker 1: dogs at watch, all keen toward the sheep. Then o'er
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  Speaker 1: the fold wall leaps with soundless feet. Soul stole Odysseus
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  Speaker 1: down from the horse. With him, follow the war fane
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  Speaker 1: lords of hellas league, orderly stepping down the ladders which
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  Speaker 1: a pay is framed for paths of mighty men, for
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  Speaker 1: entering and passing forth the horse who downed them. Now
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  Speaker 1: on this side, that side streamed as fearless wasp, startled
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  Speaker 1: by stroke of axe in angry mood, poured all together
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  Speaker 1: forth from the treepole. At sound of woodman's blow, so
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  Speaker 1: battle kindled forth the horse. They poured into the midst
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  Speaker 1: of that strong city of Troy, with hearts that left expectant.
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  Speaker 1: With swift hands snatched say the brands with the dying hearths,
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  Speaker 1: and fired temple and palace onward to the gates. Sped
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  Speaker 1: they and swiftly slew the slumbering guards. Then held the
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  Speaker 1: gate towers till their friends should come fast rode the
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  Speaker 1: hosts the while all swept the ships over the great flood.
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  Speaker 1: Thetis made their paths straight, and behind them sent a
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  Speaker 1: driving wind, speeding them, and the hearts of the Achaean's
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  Speaker 1: clothed swiftly to hellasupon shore they came, and there beats
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  Speaker 1: they the keels again, and deftly dealt with what so
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  Speaker 1: tackling appertains to ships. Then leapt they land and hastened
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  Speaker 1: on to Troy, silent a sheep that hurried to the
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  Speaker 1: fold from woodland pasture on an autumn eve. So, without
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  Speaker 1: sound of voices, marched they on unto the Trojan's fortress,
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  Speaker 1: eager all to help those mighty chiefs with foes biggirt.
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  Speaker 1: How these as famished pulls fierce clearing round fall on
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  Speaker 1: a fold mid the long forest hills, while sleeps the
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  Speaker 1: toil worn watchmen, And they ran the sheep on every
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  Speaker 1: hand within the walls in darkness, and all round are
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  Speaker 1: heaped the slain. So these within the city smote and
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  Speaker 1: slew as swarm the awakened foe around them. Yet fast
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  Speaker 1: as they slew, I faster closed on them, those thousands
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  Speaker 1: mad to thrust them from the gates slipping in blood
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  Speaker 1: and stumbling o'er the dead. Their line reeled, and destruction
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  Speaker 1: loomed on them, though Tannian thousands near and nearer drew.
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  Speaker 1: But when the whole host reached the wall of Troy,
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  Speaker 1: into the city, a prium breathing page of fight. With
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  Speaker 1: reckless battle lust they poured, and all that fortress found
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  Speaker 1: they full of war and slaughter. Palaces, temples horribly blazing
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  Speaker 1: on all sides, clothed their hearts with joy in deadly mood.
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  Speaker 1: Then charged they on the foe aries and fell eno matten. There,
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  Speaker 1: blood ran in torrents, trenched with all the earth. As
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  Speaker 1: Trojans and their eliant helpers died. Here were men dying,
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  Speaker 1: quelled by bitter death, all up and down the city,
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  Speaker 1: and their blood. Others on them were falling, gasping forth
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  Speaker 1: their life's strength. Others clutching in their hands their powels
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  Speaker 1: that looked through hideous gashes, forth, wondering and veged light
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  Speaker 1: around their homes. Others whose feet, while yet sleeping they lay,
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  Speaker 1: had been jewed off with crones unutterable crawled mid the corpses.
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  Speaker 1: Some who had rushed to fight lay now in dust,
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  Speaker 1: with hands and heads hewed off. Some were there, through
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  Speaker 1: whose backs, even as they fled, the spear had passed
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  Speaker 1: clear through to the breast, And some whose waist the
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  Speaker 1: lance had pierced, impelling them, were sharpest things, the anguish
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  Speaker 1: laden steel. And all about the city dolorous howls of
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  Speaker 1: dogs uprose, and miserable moans of strong men stricken to death,
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  Speaker 1: And every home with awful cries was echoing, rang the
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  Speaker 1: shrieks of women, like screams of cranes, with sea and
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  Speaker 1: eagle swooping on them from the sky, which have no
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  Speaker 1: courage to resist, but scream long terror streaks in tread
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  Speaker 1: of Zeus's bird. So here, so there the trojan women welled,
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  Speaker 1: some starting for their sleep, some to ground, leaping, they thought,
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  Speaker 1: not in that agony of Robot's own in naught, but
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  Speaker 1: tunics clad distroth, they wandered. Others found off hell the
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  Speaker 1: cloak to cast about them. But as came on with
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  Speaker 1: their foes, they stood with beating hearts, trembling, as fettered
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  Speaker 1: by despair, a saying, all hapless with their hands alone
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  Speaker 1: to hide their nakedness, And some, in frenzy of woe
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  Speaker 1: their tresses tore and beat their breast and screamed others
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  Speaker 1: against that stormy torrent of foes, recklessly rushed, insensible of fear,
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  Speaker 1: through mad desire to aid the perishing husbands and children,
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  Speaker 1: for despair had given high courage. Shrieks had startled from
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  Speaker 1: their sleep, soft little babes whose hearts had never known trouble,
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  Speaker 1: And there where one another lay gasping their lives out.
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  Speaker 1: Some there were whose dreams changed to a sudden vision
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  Speaker 1: of doom. All found the fell fates gloated horribly, all
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  Speaker 1: the slain. And even as swine be slaughtered in the
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  Speaker 1: court of a rich king who makes his folky feast,
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  Speaker 1: so without number they were slain. The wine left in
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  Speaker 1: the mixing bowls was blent with blood. Gruesomely, no man
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  Speaker 1: bear a sword unstained with murder of defenseless folk of Troy,
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  Speaker 1: though he were but a weakling and fair fight, And
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  Speaker 1: as by wolves or jackals, sheep are torn. What time
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  Speaker 1: the furnace breath of midnoon heat tarts down, and all
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  Speaker 1: the flock beneath the shade are crowded, and the shepherd
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  Speaker 1: is not there. But to the homestead bears afar their milk,
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  Speaker 1: and the fierce brutes sleep on them, tear their throats,
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  Speaker 1: cores to the full their ravenous maws, and then lap
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  Speaker 1: the dark blood and linger to slay all in mere,
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  Speaker 1: lustless slaughter, and provide an evil banquet for that shepherd lord.
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  Speaker 1: So through the city a prim Taddian slew one after
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  Speaker 1: other in that last fight of all no Trojan there
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  Speaker 1: was woundless. All men's limbs, with bloody torrents spelt, were
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  Speaker 1: darkly dashed, nor Scatheless were the Dandians in the fray
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  Speaker 1: with breakers. Some were smitten with tables, some thrust in
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of some were burning brands, snatched from the hearth,
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  Speaker 1: some tied, transfixed with spits, yet left within the hot
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  Speaker 1: flesh of the swine, where on the red breath of
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  Speaker 1: the fire God beat Others struck down by bills and axes,
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  Speaker 1: keen gasped in their blood from Some men's hands were
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  Speaker 1: shorn the fingers, who, in wild hope to escape the
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  Speaker 1: umante death, had clutched the blades of swords. And here
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  Speaker 1: in that dark tumult, one had hurled a stone and
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  Speaker 1: crossed the crown of a friend's head, like wild beast,
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  Speaker 1: trapped and stabbed within a fold on a lone, steading,
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  Speaker 1: mad with despair, enkindled rage beneath that night of horror,
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  Speaker 1: hot with battle lust. Here there the fighters rushed and
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  Speaker 1: curtled through the palace of Priam. Many an Arguy fell
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  Speaker 1: spear slain for Whatso Trojan in his halls might seize
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  Speaker 1: a sword, might lift a spear in hand, soo foes
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  Speaker 1: ay heavy though he were with wine up last, they
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  Speaker 1: claire unearthly through the town. For many an arg I
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  Speaker 1: bear in hand a torch to know in that dim
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  Speaker 1: battle friends from foes. Then tidiest son made the war storm,
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  Speaker 1: met Spearman carorbas lordly Megdon's son, and neath the left
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  Speaker 1: ribs pierced him with the lands where run the life
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  Speaker 1: ways of man's meat, hands drink. So met him. Black
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  Speaker 1: death pourn upon the spear town in dark blood. He
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  Speaker 1: fell mid host of slain ah fool the bride he won,
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  Speaker 1: not Priam's child, Cassandra, Yea, his loveliest for whose sake
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  Speaker 1: to priam'sburg. But yesterday he came and vaunted he would
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  Speaker 1: thrust the archives back from Alium. Never did the gods
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  Speaker 1: fulfill his hope. The fates hurled doom upon his head
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  Speaker 1: with him the slayer lad uradamis lo and Tor's gallant
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  Speaker 1: son in law, whom most for prudence was preeminent in Troy.
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  Speaker 1: Then he met Alianius, the Elder of days, and flashed
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  Speaker 1: his terrible sword forth all the limbs of that gray sire.
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  Speaker 1: What paused with his fear? He put forth trembling hands.
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  Speaker 1: With one he caught the swift avenging sword. With one,
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  Speaker 1: he clasped the hero's knees. Despite his fury of war,
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  Speaker 1: A moment paused his wrath, or haply a god held
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  Speaker 1: back the sweaty peace, that the old man might speak
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  Speaker 1: to his fierce foe one word of prayer. Piteously, he cried,
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  Speaker 1: terror overwhelmed, I kneel before thee whosoe'er thou be of
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  Speaker 1: mighty archives, Oh, compassionate my suppliant hands, obeate thy wrath
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  Speaker 1: to slay the young and value it is a glorious thing.
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  Speaker 1: But if thou smite an old man, small renown waits
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  Speaker 1: on thy powers. Therefore turn from me nine hands against
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  Speaker 1: young men. If thou dost hope ever to come to
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  Speaker 1: gray hairs such as mine, so he speak, but replied, strong,
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  Speaker 1: tidiest son, old man, I look to attain honored age,
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  Speaker 1: But while my strength yet waxeth, will I not spare
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  Speaker 1: any foe, but hurl to hates all the brave man
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  Speaker 1: makes an end of every foe. Then through his throat,
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  Speaker 1: that terrible warrior trave that deadly plaid and thrust it's
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  Speaker 1: straight to where the paths of man's life led by
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  Speaker 1: swiftest way blood paved to doom. Death. Pause at his
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  Speaker 1: poor strength by Diomi's hands, thence rushing on, saying the Trojans,
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  Speaker 1: storming in his mighte all through their fortress. Pierced by
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  Speaker 1: his long spear, yourvaka fell Perimestor's son Renhound, and feminon
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  Speaker 1: aas slew Agamemnon smote a Mastal's son. It Omenius struck
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  Speaker 1: down Mimas by Negus di Io Pettus died, achille Son,
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  Speaker 1: with his resistless lance, smote god like Peymon. Then his
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  Speaker 1: javelin peerful lettuce in mid rush Ataphonus dead. Upon these,
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  Speaker 1: he laid all priam sons, and Dinor faced him in
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  Speaker 1: the fight and fell hero On hero slew He everywhere
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  Speaker 1: stalked at his side Death's black doom manifest clad in
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  Speaker 1: his sire's might, whomso he met, he slew last on
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  Speaker 1: Troy's king. In murderous mood. He came by Zeus, the
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  Speaker 1: hearth lord's altar. Seeing him, old Priam knew him and
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  Speaker 1: quaith not, for he longed himself to lay his life
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  Speaker 1: down midst his sons, and craving death to Achilles seed,
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  Speaker 1: he spake, fierce hearted, son of Achilles, strong in war,
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  Speaker 1: slay me pity not my misery. I have no will
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  Speaker 1: to see the sons like war, who have suffered woes
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  Speaker 1: so many, and so dread. With my sons, I would die,
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  Speaker 1: and so forget anguish and horror of war. O that
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  Speaker 1: thy sire had slain me. Ere mine eyes beheld a flame.
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  Speaker 1: Ilium had slain me. When I brought to him ransom
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  Speaker 1: for Hector, whom thy father slew, He spared me. So
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  Speaker 1: the fate had spun my thread of destiny. But thou
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  Speaker 1: got my blood on my fierce heart, and let me
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  Speaker 1: forget my pain, answered Achilles, battle eager son. Fain am
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  Speaker 1: I yea in haste to grant thy prayer. A foe
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  Speaker 1: like thee I will not leave alive, for nought is
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  Speaker 1: dearer unto men than life. With one stroke swept thee
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  Speaker 1: off that horry, read lightly as when a reaper lops
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  Speaker 1: an ear, imparted cornfield at the harvest tide with lips
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  Speaker 1: yet murmuring lo it rolled afar, from where with quivering
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  Speaker 1: limbs the body lay amidst dark purple blood and slaughtered men.
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  Speaker 1: So lay he chiefest once of all the world, in vineage, wealth,
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  Speaker 1: in many and goodly sons. Ah Me not long abides
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  Speaker 1: the honor of man, but shame from unseen ambush leaps
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  Speaker 1: on him, so clutched him doom, so he fagat his woes. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: also did those Dannian car lords hurl from a high
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  Speaker 1: tower the babe astianax, dashing him out of life. They
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  Speaker 1: tore the child out of his mother's arms in wrathful
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  Speaker 1: hate of Hector, who in life had dealt them such havoc.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore hated they his seed, and down from that high
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  Speaker 1: rampart flung his child, a wordless babe that nothing knew
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  Speaker 1: of war. As mid the mountain's hungry wolves chased from
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  Speaker 1: the mother's side a suckling calf, and with malignant cunning
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  Speaker 1: drivnor an echoing cliff's hedge, while runs to and fro
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  Speaker 1: its dam with low moans, mourning her dear child, and
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  Speaker 1: a new evil followeth hard on her, for suddenly Lion
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  Speaker 1: sees her for a prey. So as she agonized for
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  Speaker 1: her son, the foe to bondage held with other captive thralls,
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  Speaker 1: that shrieking daughter of King Ethion. Then, as on those
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  Speaker 1: three fearful deaths, she thought of husband, child and father,
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  Speaker 1: and Tromachy longed sore to die yea for the royalty
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  Speaker 1: born better it is to die in war than do
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  Speaker 1: the service of the thrall to baser folk. All piteously,
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  Speaker 1: the broken hearted cried, Oh, hurl my body also from
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  Speaker 1: the wall, or down the cliff, or cast me midst
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  Speaker 1: the fire. Ye are walls are mine unutterable. For pelious
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  Speaker 1: son smote down my noble father in thebe and in
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  Speaker 1: try mine husband slew, who, unto me was all mine
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  Speaker 1: heart's desire, who left me in mine halls, one little child,
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  Speaker 1: my darling, and my pride of all my hopes in
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  Speaker 1: him fell merciless fate hath cheated me. Oh therefore, thrustless,
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  Speaker 1: broken hearted one now out of life. Hell me not
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  Speaker 1: overseas mingled with spear thralls for my soul. Henceforth, hath
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  Speaker 1: no more pleasure in life, since God hath slain my
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  Speaker 1: nearnest than my dearest. For me waits trouble and anguish
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  Speaker 1: and lone homelessness, So cried she, longing for the grave.
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  Speaker 1: For while is life to them whose glory is swallowed
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  Speaker 1: up of shame, a horror is the scorn of men.
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  Speaker 1: But spite of her prayers to Thraldom dragged they her
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  Speaker 1: in all the homes of troylay dying men, and rose
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  Speaker 1: from all a lamentable cry, save only in Antenor's halls,
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  Speaker 1: For unto him the archives rendered hospitalities dead. For that
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  Speaker 1: in time passed, had his roof receiv'd and shelter'd God
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  Speaker 1: like Menelaeus, when he and Odysseus came to claim his own. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the mighty sons of a Chairs showed grace to him
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  Speaker 1: as to a friend, and spared his life and substance.
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  Speaker 1: Fearing themis who seeth all. Then, also Prince Antises noble
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  Speaker 1: son hard had he fought through Priamsburg that night with
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  Speaker 1: spear and valor, and many had he slain, when now
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  Speaker 1: he saw the city set aflame by hands of foes
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  Speaker 1: with her folk perishing in multitudes, her treasure spoil'd, her
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  Speaker 1: wives and children, dragg'd to thrall them from their homes
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  Speaker 1: no more. He hop'd to see the stately walls of
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  Speaker 1: his birth city. But bethought him now, how from that
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  Speaker 1: mighty ruin to escape? And as the helmsman of a ship,
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  Speaker 1: who toils on the deep sea and matches his craft
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  Speaker 1: against the winds and waves from every side, rushing against
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  Speaker 1: him in the stormy time, forespent at last both hand
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  Speaker 1: and heart. When now the ship is foundering in the surge,
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  Speaker 1: forsakes the helm to launch forth in a little boat,
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  Speaker 1: and heeds no longer ship elating. So Ankis's gallant son
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  Speaker 1: forsook the town and left her to her foes a
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  Speaker 1: sea of fire. His son and father alone he snatched
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  Speaker 1: from death, the old man, broken down with years, he
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  Speaker 1: sat on his broad shoulders with his own strong hands,
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  Speaker 1: and led the young child by his small soft hand,
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  Speaker 1: whose little footsteps lightly touched the ground. And as he
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  Speaker 1: quaked to see that work of death, his father led
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  Speaker 1: him through the roar of fight, and clinging hung on him,
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  Speaker 1: the tender child tears down his cheeks, streaming, But the
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  Speaker 1: man o'er many, a body sprang with hurrying feet, and
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  Speaker 1: in the darkness in his own despite trampled on many,
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  Speaker 1: Cyprus guided them earnest to save from that wild ruin
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  Speaker 1: her son, his father, and his child. As on he pressed,
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  Speaker 1: the flames gave back before him everywhere the blast of
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  Speaker 1: the fire God's breath right and left was cloven, asunder
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  Speaker 1: spears and javelins hurled against him by the Acayan's harmless
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  Speaker 1: fell also to stay them, Calcus cried aloud for pair
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  Speaker 1: against the neest noble head, to hurl the bitter dart
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  Speaker 1: the deadly spear. Fated is he, by the high God's
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  Speaker 1: decree to pass from Xanthus, and by Tiber's flood, to
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  Speaker 1: found a city wholly and glorious through all time, and
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  Speaker 1: to rule all the tribes of men far asundered of
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  Speaker 1: his seed, shall lords of the earth rule from the
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  Speaker 1: rising to the setting sun? Yea with the mortals, ever
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  Speaker 1: shall he dwell? Who is son of Aphrodite? He lovely
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  Speaker 1: trust from him too. It is meet we hold our hands,
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  Speaker 1: because he hath preferred his father and son to gold,
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  Speaker 1: to all things that might profit a man who fleeth
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  Speaker 1: exile to an alien land. This one knight Hath revealed
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  Speaker 1: to us a man faithful to death, to his father
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  Speaker 1: and his child. Then hearkened they, and as a god
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  Speaker 1: did all look on him. Forth the city hasted he
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  Speaker 1: whither his featould bear him, while the foe made havoc
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  Speaker 1: of goodly builded Troy. Then also Menilaus in Helen's power
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  Speaker 1: found heavy with wine, ill starred Opibus and slew him
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  Speaker 1: with the sword. But she had fled and hidden in
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  Speaker 1: her palace. Or the blood of that slain man exalted
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  Speaker 1: he and cried dog, Ay, Eve, and I have doalthy
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  Speaker 1: unwelcomed this day. No torn divine shall meet thee again
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  Speaker 1: alive in Troy. Ay, though thou want thyself spouse of
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  Speaker 1: the child of Zeus of thunder hoist black Death hath
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  Speaker 1: trapped thee slain in my wife's power. Would I had
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  Speaker 1: met Alexander to and fight air this and plucked his
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  Speaker 1: heart out, So my grief had been the lighter load.
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  Speaker 1: But he hath paid already justice. Death hath passed beneath
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  Speaker 1: Death's cold tart shadow, a small joy to thee my
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  Speaker 1: wife was doomed to bring. Aye. Wicked men never elude
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  Speaker 1: poor themis knight, and tay her eyes on them and
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  Speaker 1: the wide world through above the tribes of men, she
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  Speaker 1: floats in air hope and of Zeus for punishment of
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: sin on past he dealing mercle's death to foes. For
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  Speaker 1: maddened was his soul with jealousy against the Trojans, was
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  Speaker 1: his bold heart, full of thoughts of vengeance, which were
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  Speaker 1: now fulfilled by the dread goddess Justice. For that theirs
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  Speaker 1: was that first outrage, touching Helen. There's that prophan nation
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  Speaker 1: of the oaths, and there's that trampling on the blood
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  Speaker 1: of sacrifice, when their for sumptuous souls forgat the gods.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore the vengeance friends brought woes on them thereafter, and
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  Speaker 1: some died in fighting field, some now in Troy by
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  Speaker 1: bored and bridal bower menelaus Midi and her chambers found
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  Speaker 1: at last his wife cowering there from the wrath of
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  Speaker 1: her bold hearted lord. He glared on her, hungering to
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  Speaker 1: slay her in his jealous rage. But winsome aphrodite, he
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  Speaker 1: curbed him, struck out of his hand, the sword, his
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  Speaker 1: horn rush reigned jealousy's dark clouds. She swept away and
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  Speaker 1: stirred love's deep sweet well springs in his heart, and
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  Speaker 1: eyes swept o'er him strange amazement, powerless, all was he
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  Speaker 1: to lift the sword against her neck, seeing her splendor
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  Speaker 1: of beauty, like a stalk of dead wooden mountain forest,
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  Speaker 1: which no swiftly rushing blast of north wind shake, nor
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  Speaker 1: fury of south winds. Ever, so he stood so dazed
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  Speaker 1: a bold long time. All his great strength was broken
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  Speaker 1: as he looked upon his wife, And suddenly had he
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  Speaker 1: forgotten all yea, all her sins against her spousal troth.
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  Speaker 1: For an after a day he made all fade away,
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  Speaker 1: she who subdueth all immortal hearts and mortal. Yet even
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  Speaker 1: so he lifted up from earth his sword and made
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  Speaker 1: as he would rush upon his wife. But other was
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  Speaker 1: his intent. Even as he sprang, he did but feign
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  Speaker 1: to cheat a cay and eyes. Then did his brother
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  Speaker 1: stay his fury and spake with pacifying words, fearing lest
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  Speaker 1: all they had toiled war should be lost. Forbear hath menilayus.
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  Speaker 1: Now twas shame to slay thy wedded wife, for whose
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  Speaker 1: sake we have suffer'd much affliction, while we sought vengeance
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  Speaker 1: on Priam, not as thou dost deem was Helen's the sin,
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  Speaker 1: but his who setteth not the guest lord and thine
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  Speaker 1: hospitable board. So with death pangs hath God requited him.
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  Speaker 1: Then hearkened Menilaeus to his reed. But the gods pall'd
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  Speaker 1: in dark clouds, mourn'd for troy a ruined glory, save
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  Speaker 1: fair Tres, Tritonis and Hera. Their hearts triumphed when they
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: saw the burg of God descended, priam destroy'd. Yet not
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  Speaker 1: the wise heart of trito Borne herself was wholly tearless,
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  Speaker 1: for within her fain outraged. Cassandra was of only a
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  Speaker 1: son lust madden'd, but trim vengeance upon him. Ere long
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  Speaker 1: the god is wak'd, repaying insult with mortal sufferance. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: she would not look upon the infamy, but clad herself
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  Speaker 1: with shame and wrath, as with a cloak. She turned
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  Speaker 1: her stern eyes to the temple roof and groaned. The
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  Speaker 1: holy image and the hollowed floor creaked mightily. Yet did
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  Speaker 1: he not forbear his mad sin, for his soul was
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  Speaker 1: thus distraught. Here there on all sides crumbled, flaming homes
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  Speaker 1: in ruin, down scortch dust, with smoke was blent tremble
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  Speaker 1: the streets to the awful thunderous crash. Here burned Anea's palace,
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  Speaker 1: yonder flamed Antimacus halls. One furnace was the height of
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  Speaker 1: fair built Pergamis. Flames were roaring round Apollo's temple, round
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  Speaker 1: Athenus Fane, and round the hearth Lord's altar. Flames licked
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  Speaker 1: up fair chambers of the Sun's sons of a king,
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  Speaker 1: and all the sea sank down into hell of Trojans.
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  Speaker 1: Some by argo sons were slain, some by their own roofs,
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  Speaker 1: crashing down in fire, giving at once ill death and
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  Speaker 1: tomb to them. Some in their own throats plunged the steel.
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  Speaker 1: When foes and fire were in the porch together seen,
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  Speaker 1: some slew their wives and children and flung themselves dead
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  Speaker 1: on them. When despair had un its work of horror,
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  Speaker 1: one who deemed the foe afar caught up a hoss
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  Speaker 1: and fain to quench the flame, hasted for water leapt
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  Speaker 1: unmarked on him an archive, and his spirit, heavy with wine,
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  Speaker 1: was thrust forth from the body by the spear clasped
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  Speaker 1: the void face above him. As he fell backward within
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  Speaker 1: the house, as through his hall, another fled the burning roof,
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  Speaker 1: beam crashed down on his head, and swift death came
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  Speaker 1: with it, and many women as in frenzied flight, They
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  Speaker 1: rushed forth, suddenly remembered babes left in their beds beneath
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  Speaker 1: those burning roofs. With wild feets ped they packed. The
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  Speaker 1: house fell in upon them, and they perished, mother and child.
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  Speaker 1: Horses and dogs in panic through the town fled from
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  Speaker 1: the flames, trampling beneath their feet the dead, and dashing
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  Speaker 1: into living men to their sore hurt. Shrieks rang through
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  Speaker 1: all the town. In through his blazing porchway rust a
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  Speaker 1: man to rescue wife and child through smoke and flame. Blindly,
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  Speaker 1: he groped and perished while he cried their names, and
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: pitiless doom slew those within the fire glow upward, mounted
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  Speaker 1: to the sky, the red glare or the firmament spread
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  Speaker 1: its wings, and all the tribes of folk that dwelt
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  Speaker 1: around beheld it far as IRA's melting crest, and Seeger
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  Speaker 1: tannados and Thracian sammos, and men that voyas on the
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  Speaker 1: deep sea cried. The Argis had achieved their mighty task.
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  Speaker 1: After long toil, for star eyed Helen's sake, all Troy,
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  Speaker 1: the once quam city, burns in fire. For all their prayers.
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  Speaker 1: No God defends them now for strong faith, or sees
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  Speaker 1: all works of men, and for renownless and obscure to fame.
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  Speaker 1: She raises and brings low the exalted ones oft. Out
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  Speaker 1: of goody evil is brought, and good from evil mid
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  Speaker 1: the trapil and change of life. So speak they who
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: from far beheld the glare of Troy's creek burning compast,
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  Speaker 1: were her folks, with wailing misery through her streets the
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  Speaker 1: foe exalted, as when maddening glass turmoil the boundless sea.
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  Speaker 1: What time the altar ascends to Heaven's star pavement turned
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: to the misty south over against octaorous tempest breathe and
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: with its rising leap the wild winds forth and ships
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  Speaker 1: full many or welld neath radd'ning seas wild as a
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  Speaker 1: story winds a Chaea's Sun's ravaged steep ilium, while she
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  Speaker 1: burned in flame, as when a mountain clothed with shaggy
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: woods burned swiftly in a fire, blast winged with winds,
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  Speaker 1: and from her tall peaks goeth up a roar and
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  Speaker 1: all the forest children this way and that rushed through
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  Speaker 1: the wood, tormented by the flame. So were the Trojans perishing.
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  Speaker 1: There was none to save. Of all the gods found,
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  Speaker 1: these were stake the nets of fate, which no man
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  Speaker 1: can escape. Then were the Mofo wound and the Kamas.
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  Speaker 1: By mighty theseus, mother Aethra met, yearning to see them.
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  Speaker 1: She was guided on to meet them by some blessed one.
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  Speaker 1: The while wielded from war and fire, she fled. They
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  Speaker 1: saw in that red glare a woman royal, tall, imperial molded,
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  Speaker 1: and they weened that this was Priam's queen, and with
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  Speaker 1: swift eagerness, laid hands on her to lead her cat
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  Speaker 1: thence to the Danians. But piteously she moaned, Ah, do
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  Speaker 1: not noble sons of warrior Greeks to your ship's hel me.
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  Speaker 1: As I were a foe, I am not of Trojan
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  Speaker 1: birth of Dandian's came my princely blood renound Introhesan's walls.
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  Speaker 1: Pytheas begat me aegeus wedded me, and of my womb
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  Speaker 1: sprang theseus glory crowned. For great Zeu's sake and your
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  Speaker 1: dear parent's sake. I pray you if the seed of
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  Speaker 1: theseus came hither with atreus sons, Oh bring ye me
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  Speaker 1: unto their yearning eyes. I trow they be young men
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  Speaker 1: like you. My soul shall be refreshed. If living I
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: behold those chieftains twain hearkening to her, they called her
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  Speaker 1: sire to mind his deeds for Helen's sake. And how
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Zeus the Thunderer in the old times
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  Speaker 1: smote afid nay, when, because these were but babes, their
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: nurses hid them far from peril of fight. And Aithra
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  Speaker 1: remembered all she endured through wars as mother in law first,
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  Speaker 1: and thrall thereafter of Helen. Dumb for joy were they
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  Speaker 1: till spake them off o womb to that wistful one.
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  Speaker 1: Even now the gods fulfill thine heart's desire. We whom
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  Speaker 1: thou seest are the sons of him, thy noble son.
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  Speaker 1: THEE shall our loving hands bear to the ships with
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: joy to hellas soil THEE will we bring where once
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  Speaker 1: thou wast the queen. Then his great father's mother clasped
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  Speaker 1: him around with clinging arms. She kissed his shoulders, broad
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: his head, his breast, his bearded lips, she kissed, and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the calmest kissed withal the while she shed glad tears
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: on these who could not choose but weep, as when
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: one tarries long mid alien men and folk report him dead.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: But suddenly he cometh home. His children see his face
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and break into glad weeping yea, and he his arm
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  Speaker 1: around them, and their little heads upon his shoulders. Sobs
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: echoes the home with happy mornings, music beating wings. So
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  Speaker 1: wept they with sweet sighs and sorrowless moans. Then too,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: a frich and burdened Priam's child, loud doci, they say,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: stretched her hands to Heaven, praying the almighty gods that
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Earth might gape to swallow her. Ere she defiled her
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: hands with fall's work, and a god gave ear and
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: rent deep earth beneath her. So by Heaven's decree did
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Earth's abysmal chasm receive the maid. In Troy's last hour,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Electra self withal the star cream lovely robed, shrouded her
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: form in mist and cloud, and left. The play had
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: panned her sisters, as the old and legend tells, still
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: is up in sight of toil worn men. Their bright
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: troop in the skies. But she alone hides viewless ever
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: since the hollow'd town of her son, Tartness, fell in ruin,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: when Zeus, most high from heaven, could help her, not
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: because to Fate the might of Zeus must bow, and
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: by the Immortal's purpose, all these things had come to pass,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: or by Fate's ordnance. Still on Troy's folk, the Argives
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  Speaker 1: wreak their hath and battle's issues. Strife Incarnate held end
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  Speaker 1: of Chapter thirteen.