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14 - How the conquerors sailed from Try unto judgement of tempest and shipwreck - The Fall of Troy · The Fall of Troy

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  Speaker 1: Then rose from ocean, torn the gold enthroned up to
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  Speaker 1: the heavens night into chaos sank, and now the argive
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  Speaker 1: spoil'd Fair fenced Troy and took her boundless treasures for
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  Speaker 1: a prey. Like river torrents seemed they that sweep'd down
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  Speaker 1: by rain, flood swell'd in thunder from the hills and
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  Speaker 1: seaward hurled tall trees and whatsoe'er grows on the mountains,
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  Speaker 1: mingled with a wreck of shattered cliff and crag. So
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  Speaker 1: the long lines of Dadians, who wasted joy with fire
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  Speaker 1: seem'd streaming with her plunder to the ships. Tros daughters
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  Speaker 1: therewithal in scatter'd bands. They held down Seaward virgins yet
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  Speaker 1: on wed and new made brides and matron silver haired,
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  Speaker 1: and mothers from whose bosoms foes had torn babes for
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  Speaker 1: the last time, closing lips on breast. Amidst of these
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  Speaker 1: Menilaus led his wife forth the burning city, having wrought
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  Speaker 1: a mighty triumph. Joy and shame were his Cassandra. Heavenly
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  Speaker 1: Fair was held the prize of Agamemnon to Achilles, son
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  Speaker 1: Andromache had fallen. Hecuba Odysseus dragged unto his ship. The
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  Speaker 1: tears poured from her eyes as water from a spring,
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  Speaker 1: trembled her limbs. Fear frenzied was her heart, rent, were
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  Speaker 1: her hoary tresses, and besprent, with ashes of the hearth
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  Speaker 1: cast by her hands. When she saw Priam slain and
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  Speaker 1: Troy aflame and I, she deeply groaned for Thraldom's day
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  Speaker 1: that trapped her vainly loath. Each hero led a welling
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  Speaker 1: Trojan woman to his ship. Here there uprose from these
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  Speaker 1: the wild lament, the woeful mingling cries of mother and babe,
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  Speaker 1: as when with white tusks swine, the herdsmen drive their
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  Speaker 1: younglings from the hill pens to the plain as winter
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  Speaker 1: closeth in, and evermore each answereth each with mingled, plaintive eyes,
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  Speaker 1: so moaned Troy's daughters by their foes, enslaved hand maid
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  Speaker 1: and queen made one Enthraldom's lot. But Helen raised no lamentation.
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  Speaker 1: Shame set on her dark blue eyes and cast its
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  Speaker 1: flush over her lovely cheeks. Her heart beat hard with sore,
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  Speaker 1: misgiving lest as to the ships she passed, the Achaeans
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  Speaker 1: might mishandle her Therefore, with fluttering souls, she trembled sore,
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  Speaker 1: and her head darkly mantled in her veil, close following
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  Speaker 1: trodgy in her husband's steps, with cheek shame crimsoned like
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  Speaker 1: the queen of love. What time the heaven abiders saw
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  Speaker 1: her clasped in airy's arms, shaming in sight of all
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  Speaker 1: the marriage bed trapp'd in the myriad meshed toils of
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  Speaker 1: her festus tangled, There she lay in agony of shame,
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  Speaker 1: while thronged around the blessed, And there stood her festus
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  Speaker 1: self for fearful it is for wives to be beheld
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  Speaker 1: by husband's eyes doing the deed of shame. Lovely as
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  Speaker 1: she in form and roseate blush passed helen mid the
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  Speaker 1: trojan captives on to the argive ships. But the folk
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  Speaker 1: all around marveled to see the glory of loveliness of
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  Speaker 1: that all flawless woman. No man dared or secretly are
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  Speaker 1: openly to cast reproach on her, as on a goddess.
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  Speaker 1: All gazed on her with adoring wistful eyes, as when
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  Speaker 1: to wanderers on the stormy sea. After long time and
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  Speaker 1: passionate prayer, the sight of Fatherland is given from deadly
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  Speaker 1: Deep's escape. They stretched their hands to her joyful soul,
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  Speaker 1: so joy the Danians all, no man of them remembered
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  Speaker 1: any more War's travail and pain such thoughts Eytheria stirred
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  Speaker 1: in them for grace to Helen's starry eyed and Zeus
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  Speaker 1: her sire. Then, when he saw that bird beloved destroy'd
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  Speaker 1: Xanthus scarce, drawing breath from bloody War mourned with his
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  Speaker 1: nymphs for Ruin'd fallen on Troy, mourned for the city
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  Speaker 1: a Priam blotted out, as when hell lashes a field
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  Speaker 1: of ripened wheat and beats it small and smites off
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  Speaker 1: the ears with merciless scourge, and leveled with the ground
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  Speaker 1: are stalks. And on the earth is all the grain
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  Speaker 1: woefully wasted, And the harvest lord is stricken with deadly
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  Speaker 1: grief souls, and the soul was utterly whelmed in grief.
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  Speaker 1: For Ilium made a desolation. Grief undying was his immortal
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  Speaker 1: though he was mourned Samois and long reached Idah All
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  Speaker 1: who on Ida dwelt welled from afar the ruin of
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  Speaker 1: Priam's town, But with loud laughter of glee, the argive
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  Speaker 1: sought their galleys, chanting the triumph might of victory, chanting,
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  Speaker 1: now the blessed gods, now their own palor and a
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  Speaker 1: paious work. Every now the song soared up to heaven,
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  Speaker 1: like multitudinous cries of DAWs. When breaks a day of sunny,
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  Speaker 1: calm and windless air. After ruining storm from their glad hearts,
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  Speaker 1: so rose the joyful clamor, till the gods heard and
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  Speaker 1: rejoiced in heaven all who helped with willing hands the
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  Speaker 1: war faint Argive men, but chaf those others which had
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  Speaker 1: aided Troy beholding prime city wrapped in flame, yet powerless
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  Speaker 1: for her help to override fate. For not chronos Son
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  Speaker 1: can stay the hand of destiny, whose might transcendeth all
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  Speaker 1: the immortals, and Zeus sanctioneth all her deeds. The Argives
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  Speaker 1: on the flaming altar wood, laid many thighs of oxen,
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  Speaker 1: and made haste to spill sweet wine on their burnt offerings,
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  Speaker 1: thanking the gods for the great work achieved. And loudly
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  Speaker 1: at the feast they sang the praise of all the
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  Speaker 1: maled men whom the horse of Tree had ambushed far
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  Speaker 1: our famed signar, they extolled for that dire torment he
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  Speaker 1: endured of foes, yea song and honor girdens without end
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  Speaker 1: all rendered him, and that resolved soul glad hearted, joyed
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  Speaker 1: for the argive's victory, and for his own misfeaturing sorrowed.
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  Speaker 1: Not for to the wise and prudent man, renown is
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  Speaker 1: better far than gold, than goodly head, than all good
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  Speaker 1: things men have or hope to win. So, feasting by
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  Speaker 1: the ship's all, void of fear, cried one to another.
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  Speaker 1: Ever and Anon, we have touched the goal of this
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  Speaker 1: long war, have won glory, have smitten our foes and
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  Speaker 1: their great town. Now grant o zeus to our prayer's
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  Speaker 1: safe home. Return, but not to all the sire of
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  Speaker 1: outsafe returned. Then rose a cunning harper in their midst
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  Speaker 1: and sang the song of triumph and of peace reward.
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  Speaker 1: And with glad hearts untouched by care, they heard. For
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  Speaker 1: no more fear of war had they but of sweet toil,
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  Speaker 1: of law abiding days, and blissful fleeting hours. Henceforth they
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  Speaker 1: dreamed all the war's story in their eager ears. He sang,
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  Speaker 1: how leagued peoples gathering men had hallowed all this, how
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  Speaker 1: the invincible strength of Pelias sun smote fenced cities twelve
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  Speaker 1: in sea raids, how he marched our leagues on leagues
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  Speaker 1: of land and spoiled eleven All he wrought in fight
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  Speaker 1: with Telephus and Echigon. How he slew giant sickness, all
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  Speaker 1: the toil of war that through Achilles wrath befell the Achaeans.
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  Speaker 1: How he dragged dead Hector round his own troy's wall,
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  Speaker 1: And how he slew in fight Panthasalaia and Tactonus Son,
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  Speaker 1: how aas laid Loclaucus, lord of spears. Then sang he,
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  Speaker 1: how the child eld of Aeacus Son struck down your hippoles,
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  Speaker 1: and how the shafts of Philoctitis telt to Paris death.
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  Speaker 1: Then the song named all the heroes who passed in
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  Speaker 1: ambush to the horse of Kyle, and him the fall
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  Speaker 1: of God descended Priumsburg. The feast he sang last, and
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  Speaker 1: peace after war. Then many another as they listed sang.
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  Speaker 1: But when above those feasters midnight stars hung ceased the
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  Speaker 1: Dadians from the feast and wine, and turned to sleep's
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  Speaker 1: forgetful care for that with yesterday's war travail all were wearied.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore they who fain all night had reveled needs must cease,
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  Speaker 1: how loath soe'er sleep drew them. Thence here and there
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  Speaker 1: soft slumbered they. But in his tent Medelaeus lovingly, with
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  Speaker 1: bright haired Helen spake for all their eyes. Sleep had
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  Speaker 1: not fallen. Yet the Sipiian queen brooded above their souls
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  Speaker 1: that old in love might be renewed, and heart ache
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  Speaker 1: chaste away. Helen first broke the silence, and she said, O, Menelaus,
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  Speaker 1: be not wroth with me, not of my will. I
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  Speaker 1: left thy roof thy bed. But Alexander and the sons
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  Speaker 1: of Troy came upon me and snatched away when thou
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  Speaker 1: wast far. Hence oft times did I say by the
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  Speaker 1: death news to perish wretchedly, or by the bitter sword.
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  Speaker 1: But still they stayed mine hand and speak comfortable words
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  Speaker 1: to solve my grief for THEE and my sweet child,
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  Speaker 1: for her sake, for the sake of old in love,
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  Speaker 1: and for thine own sake. I beseech THEE. Now forget
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  Speaker 1: thy stern displeasure against thy wife, answered her, Menelaus, wise
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  Speaker 1: of wit no more remember passed, sealed them up hiding
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  Speaker 1: thine heart, let all be locked within the dim dark
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  Speaker 1: mansion of forgetfulness. What profits it to call ill deeds
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  Speaker 1: to mind? Glad was she? Then? Fear flitted from her
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  Speaker 1: heart and came sweet hope that her lord's wrath was dead.
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  Speaker 1: She cast her arms around him, and their eyes with tears,
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  Speaker 1: were brimming as they made sweet moan. Then side by
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  Speaker 1: side they laid them, and their hearts thrilled with remembrance
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  Speaker 1: of old spousal joy, as they vine and ivory intertwined
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  Speaker 1: their stems each around other, that no might have wind
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  Speaker 1: of vails to sever them, so clung these twain twined
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  Speaker 1: in the passionate embrace of love. When came upon these
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  Speaker 1: two sorrow drowning sleep, even then above his son's head
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  Speaker 1: rose and stood caught like Achilles mighty shade in form
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  Speaker 1: as when he liv'd the Trojan's pain the joy of Greeks,
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  Speaker 1: and kiss'd his neck and flashing eyes lovingly, and spake
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  Speaker 1: comfortable words. All hell, my son, vex not thy heart
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  Speaker 1: with grief for thy dead sire, For with the blessed gods,
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  Speaker 1: now at the feast, I sit, refrain thy soul from sorrow,
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  Speaker 1: and plant my strength within thy mind beforemost of the
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  Speaker 1: aur guise ever yield to none in valor, but in
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  Speaker 1: counsel bow before thine elders soul shall all acclaim thy courtesy, honor,
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  Speaker 1: princely men and wise, for ever the true man is
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  Speaker 1: the true man's friend, even as the vile man cleaveth
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  Speaker 1: to the knave. If good thy thought be, good shall
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  Speaker 1: be thy deeds. But no shall attain to Honor's height
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  Speaker 1: except his heart be right within her stem is hard
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  Speaker 1: to climb, and high in heaven. Spread her branches. Only
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  Speaker 1: they whom strength and toil attend, strain up to pluck
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  Speaker 1: her blissful foot, climbing the tree up honor glory crown'd.
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  Speaker 1: Thou therefore follow fame, and let thy soul be not
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  Speaker 1: in sorrow, afflicted over much, nor in prosperity over glad
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  Speaker 1: to friends, to comrades, child and wife. Be kindly of heart,
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  Speaker 1: remembering still that near to all men stand the gates
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  Speaker 1: of doom. The mansions of the dead. For human kind
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  Speaker 1: are like the flowers of grass, the blossom of spring.
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  Speaker 1: These fade, while those bloom. Therefore be thou ever kindly
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  Speaker 1: with thy kind. Now to the argive, say to atreus
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  Speaker 1: on Agamemnon. Chiefly, if my battle toil round Priam's walls,
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  Speaker 1: or those sea raids I lead, or ever I set
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  Speaker 1: foot on chojan Land, be in their heart remembered to
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  Speaker 1: my tomb be Priam's daughter Polyxena, led, whom as my
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  Speaker 1: portion of the spoil I claim and sacrificed thereon. Else
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  Speaker 1: shall my wrath against them more than for Bracius. Burn
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  Speaker 1: the waves of the great deep. Will I turmoil to
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  Speaker 1: bar their way up, stirring storm on storm, that through
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  Speaker 1: their own mad folly, pining away here they may linger
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  Speaker 1: long until to me they pour drink offerings, yearning sore
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  Speaker 1: for home. But when they have slain the maiden, I
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  Speaker 1: grudge not that whoso will may bury her far from me.
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  Speaker 1: Then as a wind breath swift, he fleeted thence and
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  Speaker 1: came to the Elysian plain, where to a path you
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  Speaker 1: heaven reacheth for the feet ascending and descending of the blest.
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  Speaker 1: Then the son started up from sleep and call'd his
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  Speaker 1: sire to mind, and glow'd the heart in him. When
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  Speaker 1: to the wide heaven the child of mist up rose,
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  Speaker 1: scattering knight, unwilling earth and air. Then from their rest
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  Speaker 1: upsprang Achaea's sons, yearning for home with laughter again, they
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  Speaker 1: held down to the sea the keels, but lo their
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  Speaker 1: haste was reigned in by Achilles mighty son. He assembled
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  Speaker 1: them and told his sire's behest. Hearken, dear sons of
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  Speaker 1: our gives battle staunch to my glorious father's hest to me.
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  Speaker 1: Spoken in darkness, slumbering on my bed, he saith, he
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  Speaker 1: dwells with the immortal gods. He biddeth you and Atreus
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  Speaker 1: son the king, to bring as his war girden. Passing
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  Speaker 1: fair to his dim dark tomb. Polyxena queenly roam'd to
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  Speaker 1: slay her there, but far from thence to bury her.
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  Speaker 1: But if ye sight him and to say to sell
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  Speaker 1: the sea, he threateneth to stir up the waves, to
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  Speaker 1: bar your path upon the deep, and here storm bound
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  Speaker 1: long time to hold you ships and men. Then hearkened they,
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  Speaker 1: and as to a god, they prayed for even now
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  Speaker 1: a storm blast on the sea upheaved the waves card
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  Speaker 1: back and thronging fast more than before, beneath a maddening wind,
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  Speaker 1: toss the great deep smit by Olseidon's hands for a
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  Speaker 1: grace to strong Achilles. All the winds swoop'd of the waters,
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  Speaker 1: pray'd the garden's hall to Achilles, and a man to
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  Speaker 1: his fellow, cried, great zeusid Achilles farily was. Therefore is
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  Speaker 1: he a god who in days passed chelt among us
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  Speaker 1: for lapse of Dateless time makes not the sons of
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  Speaker 1: heaven to fade away. Then to achilles tomb, the host
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  Speaker 1: return'd and led the maid calf by herdsmen, dragged for
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice from woodland pastures, torn from its mother's side, and
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  Speaker 1: lowing loud and long, it moans with anguish heart. So
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  Speaker 1: Priam's child, welled in the hands of foes, downs stream'd
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  Speaker 1: her tears as when beneath the heavy sacks of sand, olives,
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  Speaker 1: clear skinned, ne'er blotched by drops of storm, pour out
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  Speaker 1: their oil. When the long levers creak, as strong men
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  Speaker 1: strained the cords, so poured the tears of travel burdened
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  Speaker 1: Priam's daughter held to stern achilles tomb, tears blent with moans,
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  Speaker 1: drenched were her bosom folds glistened, the drops on flesh
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  Speaker 1: clear white as costly ivory. Then to crown all her griefs,
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  Speaker 1: yet sharper pain fell on the heart of hapless Hecuba.
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  Speaker 1: Then did her soul recall that awful dream, the vision
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  Speaker 1: of sleep, of that night overpast her seam, that on
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  Speaker 1: Achilles tombs. She stood, her hair down, streaming to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: and from her breast blood dripped to earth the while
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  Speaker 1: and drenched the tomb. Fear haunted, touching this foreboding all calamity,
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  Speaker 1: she weld piteously far rang her wild lament as a
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  Speaker 1: dog moaning at her master's door, utters long howls, her
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  Speaker 1: teeths with milk, distent whose whelps ere their eyes open
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  Speaker 1: to the light. Her lords afar have flung a prey
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  Speaker 1: to kites. And now with short, sharp cries she plained,
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  Speaker 1: And now long howling the weird outcry thrills the air
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  Speaker 1: so held soul shrieked from her child, hecubah, ah me,
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  Speaker 1: what sorrows? First or last? Shall I lament? Hot? Anguished?
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  Speaker 1: Who am full of woes? Those unimagined ills my son,
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  Speaker 1: my king have suffered, or my city or my daughter
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  Speaker 1: shamed for my despair, my day of slavery. Oh, the
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  Speaker 1: grim fates have caught me in a net of manifold ills,
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  Speaker 1: Oh child, they have spun for thee a dread weird
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  Speaker 1: of unimagined misery. They have thrust THEE away when near
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  Speaker 1: was Hymen's hymn for thine espousals mark THEE for destruction, dark, unadorable, unspeakable.
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  Speaker 1: For lo a dead man's heart. Achilles heart is by
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  Speaker 1: our blood made warm with life. To day, oh child,
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  Speaker 1: dear child, that I might die with THEE, that earth
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  Speaker 1: might swallow me. Ere I see thy doom, So cried she, weeping,
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  Speaker 1: never ceasing tears, for grief on bitter grief encompassed her.
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  Speaker 1: But when these reached divine achilles tomb, then did his
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  Speaker 1: son unheath the wetted sword. His left hand grasped the maid,
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  Speaker 1: and his right hand was leid upon the tomb. And
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  Speaker 1: thus he cried, here, father, thy son's prayer, hear the
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  Speaker 1: prayers of oargives, and be no more wroth with us.
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  Speaker 1: Lo unto thee. Now all thy heart's desire we will fulfill.
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  Speaker 1: Be gracious to us thou and to our praying, grant
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  Speaker 1: sweet home return into the maid's throat. Then he plunged
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  Speaker 1: the blade of death the dear life straightway. Sobbed she
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  Speaker 1: forth with the last piteous moan of parting breath, face
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  Speaker 1: downward to the earth, she fell all round. Her flesh
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  Speaker 1: was crimson from her neck as snow stained on a
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  Speaker 1: mountain side, with scarlet blood rushing from chaplinsmith and bore
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  Speaker 1: our paar. The maiden's corpse then gave they to be
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  Speaker 1: borne unto the city, to Antinoor's home, For that, when
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  Speaker 1: Troy yet stood, he nurtured her in his fair halls,
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  Speaker 1: a bride for his own son. Eurymachus. The old man
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  Speaker 1: buried her King Priam's princess child, nigh his own house
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  Speaker 1: by Ganymedeas shrine, and over against the temple of Pallace
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  Speaker 1: the unwearied one. Then were the waves still'd, and the
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  Speaker 1: blast was hushed to sleep, and all the sea floor
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  Speaker 1: lull to calm, swift, with glad laughter high they to
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  Speaker 1: the ships, hymming Achilles and the blessed ones. A feast
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  Speaker 1: they made, first, serving thighs of kind for the immortals,
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  Speaker 1: cladsome sacrifice, steam'd on all sides. In cups of silver
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  Speaker 1: and gold, they drank sweet wine, and the hearts leaped
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  Speaker 1: up with hope of winning to their fatherland again. But
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  Speaker 1: when with meats and wine all these were fill'd. Then
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  Speaker 1: in their eager ear spake nearly a son. Here, friends,
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  Speaker 1: who have escaped the long turmoil of war, that I
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  Speaker 1: may say to you one welcome word. Now is the
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  Speaker 1: hour of heart's delight, the hour of home. Return away Achilles,
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  Speaker 1: soul hath ceased from ruinous wrath. Earth shaker stills, the
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  Speaker 1: stormy wave and gentle breezes blow no more, the waves
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  Speaker 1: toss high. Haste held the ships down to the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Now ho for hum return eager they heard, and ready
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  Speaker 1: made the ships. Then was a marvelous portent scene of
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  Speaker 1: men for all unhappy. Priam's queen was changed from woman's
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  Speaker 1: form into a pitiful hound, and all men gathered round
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  Speaker 1: in wondering awe. Then all her body a god transformed
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  Speaker 1: to stone, a mighty marvel for men yet unborn. At Calcus,
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  Speaker 1: bidding this, the Achaeans bore in a swift ship to
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  Speaker 1: Hellespont's far side, then down to the sea. In haste
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  Speaker 1: they ran the keels their wealth they laid aboard, even
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  Speaker 1: all the spoil taken or ever unto Troy. They came
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  Speaker 1: from conquered neighbor people there withal whatso they took from Hylium,
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  Speaker 1: wherein most they joyed, for untold was the sum thereof,
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  Speaker 1: and followed with them many a captive maid with anguished heart.
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  Speaker 1: So went they aboard the ships. But Calcus would not,
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  Speaker 1: with that eager host, launch forth. Yea, he had fain
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  Speaker 1: withheld therefrom all the Achaeans, for his prophet's soul foreboded
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  Speaker 1: dread destruction looming all the Argives by the ros Kofarion,
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  Speaker 1: But not they heeded him. Malignant fate deluded men's souls.
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  Speaker 1: Only Amphilochus the Wise, and prophet Lore the gallant, son
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  Speaker 1: of Princely Amphiarius, stayed with him. Fated were these twain
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  Speaker 1: far from their own land to reach Pamphylion and Silician burghs.
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  Speaker 1: And this the gods thereafter brought to pass. But now
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  Speaker 1: the Achaeans cast the hawsers loose from shore. In haste,
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  Speaker 1: they heaved the anchor stone roared hell upon beneath the
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  Speaker 1: flashing oars crashed the prowls through the sea. About the
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  Speaker 1: POWs much armor of slain foes was lying heaped along
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  Speaker 1: the pulwarks. Victory trophies hung countless with Carlin's wreathed. They
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  Speaker 1: all the ships their heads, the spears, the shields, wherewith
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  Speaker 1: they had fought against their foes. The chiefs stood on
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  Speaker 1: the prows and poured into the dark sea, once and
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  Speaker 1: again wine to the gods to grant them safe return.
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  Speaker 1: But with the winds their prayers mixed far away. Vainly
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: they floated, blent with cloud and air, with anguished hearts.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: The captive maids looked back on Ilium, and with sobs
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  Speaker 1: and moans they weld, striving to hide their grief from
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  Speaker 1: argive eyes, clasping their knees. Some sat in misery, some
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  Speaker 1: veiled with their hands their faces, nursed young children in
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  Speaker 1: their arms, those innocents not yet bewail their day of bondage,
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  Speaker 1: nor their country's ruin. All their thoughts were set on
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  Speaker 1: comfort of the breast, for the babe's heart hath none
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  Speaker 1: affinity with sorrow. All set with unbraided hair and pitiful breast,
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  Speaker 1: scored with their fingers on their cheeks, there lay stains
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  Speaker 1: of dried tears, and streamed thereover now fresh tears full fast.
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  Speaker 1: As still they gazed apack on the lost, hapless home,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: wherefrom yet rose the flames and oorish writhe. The rolling
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: smoke now on Cassandra. Marveling they gazed, calling to mind
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  Speaker 1: her prophecy of doom. But at their tears, she laughed
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: in bitter scorn, in anguish for the ruin of her land.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Such Trojans, as had escaped from pitiless war, gathered to render.
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  Speaker 1: Now the burial dews unto their city. Slain and tear
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  Speaker 1: now led to that sad work, one pyre for all
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  Speaker 1: they raised, but laughed with triumphing hearts the argive men
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  Speaker 1: as now with oars they swept o'er the dark sea ways.
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  Speaker 1: Now hastily hoisted sails high. All the ships and fleeted
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  Speaker 1: fast astern Dardania Land and hero Achilles tomb. But now
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  Speaker 1: thou hearts, how blithe so air remembered comrades slain and sorely,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: grieved and wistfully they looked back to the alien land.
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  Speaker 1: It seemed to them I sliding farther from the ships,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: full soon by Tenado's beeches spilt they now they ran
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: by Caissa smin the in Phoebus holy place, and hollowed Cillia.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Far away were glimpsed the windy heights of Lesbos rounded
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: now was Lecton's foreland. Where is the last peak of
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Idra in the sails loud hummed, the wind crashed round
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: the prows, the dark surge, the long waves, old, shadowy
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  Speaker 1: hollows far, the white wake gleamed. Now had the argives
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: all to the hallowed soil of hellas won by perils
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  Speaker 1: of the deep, unscathed. But for Athena, daughter of Zeus,
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  Speaker 1: for thunderer and her indignation's wrath. When nigh Eupoea's windy
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  Speaker 1: heights they drew, she rose in anger, unappeasable against the
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  Speaker 1: Locrian king, devising, tomb crushing and pitiless, and drew high
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  Speaker 1: to Zeus, lord of the gods, and spake to him
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  Speaker 1: apart in wrath, that in her breast would not be
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: pent Zeus farther unendurable of God's is men's presumption. They
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  Speaker 1: reck not of thee of none of the blessed wreck
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  Speaker 1: they forasmuch as vengeance followeth after sin no more, and
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: ofttimes more afflicted or good men than evil, and their
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: misery hath no end. Therefore no man regardeth justice. Shame
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  Speaker 1: is not with men, And I I will not dwell
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: hereafter in Olympus not be name thy daughter, if I
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: may not be a venge are the Achayan's reckless sin.
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  Speaker 1: Behold within my very temple, only a son hath wrought iniquity,
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  Speaker 1: hath pitied, not Cassandra, stretching unregarded hands once and again
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  Speaker 1: to me, Nor did he dread my might, nor reverenced
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  Speaker 1: in his wicked heart the immortal, but in deed intolerable
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  Speaker 1: he did. Therefore, let not thy spirit of hine begrudge
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  Speaker 1: my heart's desire, so that all men may quake before
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  Speaker 1: the manifest wath of God's answered the sire with heart
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  Speaker 1: assuaging words. Child, not for the arg i' sake, withstand
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  Speaker 1: I thee, but all mine armory which the cyclops might win.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: My favor wrought with tireless hands to thy desire, I
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: give O, strong heart, hurl a ruining storm thyself on
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the arg i fleet. Then down before thee all is made.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: He cast swift lightning, thunder and deadly thunderbolt, and her
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: heart leapt, and gladdened was her soul. She downed the
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: stormy aegis, flashing far adamantine massy a marvel to the gods.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Whereon was wrought Medusa's ghastly head, fearful, strong serpents, breathing
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: forth a blast of ravening fire, while on the face
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: thereof crashed on the Queen's breast. All the aegis lynks,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: as after lightning crashes the firmament. Then grasped she her
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: father's weapons, which no god save Zeus can lift, and
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: wide Olympus shook, then swept she the clouds and missed
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: together on high night over Earth was poured haze or
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the sea. Zeus watched and was right glad, as broad
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Heaven's floor rocked neath the Godi's feet and crashed the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: sky as though invincible. Zeus rushed forth to war. Then
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: sped she Iris unto ALUs from Heaven, far flying over
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: the misty seas, to bid him send forth all his
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: buffeting winds or iron bound cafarious cliffs, to sweep ceaselessly
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and with ruin of maddening plass, to upheave the sea.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Iris heard, and swift she darted through cloud pillows, plunging
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: down Thou hast, said ho in the sky dark water
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and fire, And to Aeolia came she isle of caves,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: of echoing dungeons, of mad raging winds, with rugged ribs
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: of mountains over arched, whereby the mansion stands of Illus,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Hippota's son him found she therewin with wife and twelve sons,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and she told him Athena's purpose toward the home bound
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: a Cayans. He denied her not, but passed forth of
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: his halls, and in resistless hands oft swung his trident,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: smiting the mountainside, within whose chasms cell the wild winds
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: dwelt tempestuously, shrieking, ever peeled, weird roarings of their voices
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: round its faults. Left by his might was the hill's hide.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Forth they poured. He pat them on their wings bare
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: blackest storm to upheave the sea and shroud cofarious heights.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Swiftly up sprang they ere. The king's command was fully spoken,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: mightily boned the sea as they rushed on it. Waves
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: like mounting cliffs from all sides were uprolled. The Achaean's
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: hearts were terror palsied as the towering surge now swung
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the ships up high through palling mist now hurled them
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: rolled as down of precipice to dark abysses up through
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: the yawning deeps. Some power, resistless belts, the boiling sand
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: from the sea's floor tossed in despair, fear. Dazed men
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: could not grasp the oar, nor reef the sail about
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: the hard arm, how so pain ere the winds rent.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: It could not, with sheets trim the torn canvas. But
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: so they were by ruining plast. The helmsman had no
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: power to cuie the rudder with his practiced hands. For
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: those ill winds hurled all confusedly. No hope of life
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: was left them. Practicus Knight, fury of tempest, wrath of
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: deathless God's raged around them. Still Poseidon heaved and swung
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the merciless sea to work the heart's desire of his
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: brother's glorious child. And she on high stormed with her lightnings,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: ruthless in her rage, thundered from heaven Zeus in purpose,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: fixed to glorify his daughter. All the hiles and mainland
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: round were last by leaping seas nigh to Yopohia, where
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the power divine scoorsed most. With unrelenting stroke on stroke,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the argives corone and shriek of perishing men rang through.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: The ships started great beams and snapped with ominous sound. Forever,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: ship on ship with shivering timbers crashed with hopeless toil
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: men strained with hoars to thrust back hulls that reeled
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: down on their own, but with the shattered planks were
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: hurled into the abyss, to perish there by pitiless doom.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: For beams of foundering ships from this from that side
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: battered out their lives and crushed. Were all their bodies wretchedly.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Some in the ships fell down, and like dead men
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: lay there. Some in the grip of destiny, clinging to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: o'ar smooth shaven, tried to swim. Some upon planks were tossing,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: roared the surge from fathomless depths. It seemed as though sea,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: sky and hair were blended, all confusedly. Still from Olympus
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: thundered a tritony, wielded her father's power. Unshamed, still, the
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Welkin shrieked round her ruin of wrath. Upon ass hurled,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: she on his ship das she a thunderbolt, and shivered
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: it wide in a moment into fragments fall, while earth
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and hair yelled off wreck and whirled and plunged and
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: fell the whole sea. Thereon they the ship were altogether
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: flung forth about them, swept the giant waves found them,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: lept lightnings, naming through the dark, Choked with a strangling
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: surf of hissing brine, gasping half life, they drifted o'er
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: the sea. But he even in death, those captive maids
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: rejoiced as some ill starred ones, clasping to their breast
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: their baves, sank in the sea. Some flung their arms
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: round Dannian's horror stricken heads, and dragrees down with them,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: so rendering to their foes requital for foul outrage done
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: to them. And from on high, the haughty tritle born
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: looked down on all this, and her heart was glad.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: But aas floated now on a galley's plank, now through
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the brine, with strong hands o'er his path like some
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: old titan, tireless in his might. Cleft was the salt
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: sea surge by sinewy hands of that undaunted man. The
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: gods beheld and marveled at his courage and his strength.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: But now the pillows swung him upon high through the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: misty air, as though a mountain's peak, now whelmed him down,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: as they would bury him in ravening whirlpits. Yet his
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: stubborn hands toiled on, unwearied I too right, and left
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: flast lightnings down and quench them in the sea. For
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: not yet was the child of thunderer Zeu's purpose to
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: smite him dead. Despite her wrath, ere he had drained
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: the cup of travail and pain down to the dregs.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: So in the deep, long time affliction wore him down, tormented, sore.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: On every side, grim feet stood round the man unnumbered.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Yet despair, kindle strength, he cried, Though all the Olympians banded,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: come in wrath and rouse against me all the sea.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I will escape them. But no wit did he elude
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the god's wrath. For the shaker of the earth, in
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: fierceness of his Indian nation marked where his hands clung
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: to the Guarrhian rock, and in stern anger with an
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: earthquake shook both sea and land around on all sides,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: crest to Paris cliffs. Beneath the sea King's wrath, the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: serf tormented, peaches, shrieked and roared. The broad crag rifted,
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: reeled into the sea. The rock where to his desperate
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: hands had clung. Yet did he writhe up round its
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: jutting spurs, while flay his hands were and fromneath his knells.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: The blood ran wrestling with him, roared the waves, and
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: the foam whitened all his hair and beard. Yet had
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: he scaped Perchancey's evil doom had not for Sidon wroth
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: with his heartihood cleaving the earth, hurled down the chasm,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the rock as in old time palace heaved on high Cecily,
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: and on huge Ensaladus dashed down the hile which burns
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: with the burning. Yet of that immortal giant, as he
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: breathes fire underground, so did the mountain crag hurled from
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: on high Pery, the Locrian king, peering the strong man
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: down a wretch crushed flat, and on him Death's black
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: destruction came, whom land and sea alike were leagued to slay.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Still over the great deep we swept the rest of
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: those accayans crouching terran days down in the ships, save
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: those that mid the waves had fallen. Misery encompassed all,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: for some with heavily plunging prowls, drave on with keels upturned.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Some drifted here, One pass snapped from the hulls by
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: rushing gust, and there were tempest rifted wrecks of scattered beams,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: and some had sunk whelmed in the mighty deep, swamped
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: by the torrent downpour from the clouds. For these endured
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: not madness of wind tossed sea league with Heaven's water spout,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: for streamed the sky ceaselessly like a river, while the
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: deep raved round them. And one cried, such floods on
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: men shall only when Deucalion's deluge came, when Earth was
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: d and all must fathom the sea, so cried Aaydanian,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: seeing soul appall that wild storm. Thousands perished, corpses thronged
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: the great sea highways, all the beaches were too straight
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: for them, the surf belt's multitudes forth on the land.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: The heavy, booming sea, with weltering beams of ships, was
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: wholly paved, And here and there the gray waves gleamed between.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: So found they each his several evil fate, Some whelmed
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: beneath broad rushing billows, some wretchedly perishing with their shattered
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: ships by Napolis, devising all the rocks. Wroth for that
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Sun whom they had done to death. He, when the
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: storm rose and the argis tied, rejoiced them at his sorrow,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: seeing a god gave to his hands revenge, which now
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: he reaped upon the host he hated. As o'er the
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: deep they toss'd soar harassed to his sea god sire,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: he prayed that all might perish. Ships and men whelm'd
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: in the deep. Poseidon heard his prayer, and on the
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: dark surge swept them nigh his land. He, like a
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: harbor warder, lifted high placing torch, and so by dial
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: he trapped the Acaean men, who deemed that they had
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: won a sheltering haven. But sharp reefs and crags gave
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: awful welcome unto ships and men who dashed to pieces
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: on the cruel rocks in the black night, crowned ills
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: with dire ills. Some few escaped by a god or
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: power unseen, plucked from Death's hand. Athena now rejoiced to
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: heart within, and now was wreck'd with fears. For prudent
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: souled Odysseus, for his weird was through Poseidon's wrath to
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: suffer woe's full many. But earth Shaker's jealousy now burn'd
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: against those long walls and towers up pil'd by the
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: strong argives for a fence against the Trojan's battle onset swiftly.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Then he swelled toward brimming all the sea that rolls
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: from Oxine down to Hellespont, and hurled in on the
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: shore of Troy, and Zeus for a grace unto the
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: glorious shaker of Earth, poured rain from Heaven withal far
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: daughter bare in that great work his part from Hydra's
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: heights into one channel lady all his streams, and flooded
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: the Archaean's work. The sea dashed o'er it, and the
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: roaring torrent still rushed on, swollen by the rains of Zeus,
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: and the dark surge of the wide, moaning sea still
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: hurled them back from mingling with the deep, till all
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: the Dannian walls were blotted out beneath that desolating flood
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: than Earth was by Poseidon chasm cleft up rushed deluge
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: of water slime in its hand, while great cityum with
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: a mighty shock and roared the beach and foundations of
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the land Dardanian so vanished, whelmed from sight that mighty
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: rampart earth, a sun yawned and all sank down, and
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: only sand was seen when packed the sea rolled or
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: the beach out spread far down the booming shore. All
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: this the Immortal's anger wrought. But in their ships the
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: argives storm dispersed, went sailing on. So came they home,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: as Heaven guided each, even all that scaped the fell
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: tempest blast. End of Chapter fourteen, End of the Fall
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: of Troy,