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  Speaker 1: Book eleven, Part three of Ovid's Metamorphoses. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by David Goldfarb. Metamorphoses by Pobliosovidius Naso, translated by
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  Speaker 1: brooks More, Book eleven, Part three. King Kaeks, disturbed by
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  Speaker 1: his loved brother's fate and prodigies which happened since that time,
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  Speaker 1: prepared to venture to the Clarion God, that he might
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  Speaker 1: there consult the oracle. So sanctified a consolation of distress.
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  Speaker 1: For then the way to Delphi was unsafe because of
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  Speaker 1: Phbus and his Phlegeans. Before he went, he told his
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  Speaker 1: faithful queen, his dear Halcione. She felt at once terror
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  Speaker 1: creep through the marrow of her bones. Pallor of boxwood
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  Speaker 1: overspread her face, and her two cheeks were wet with
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  Speaker 1: gushing tears. Three times she tried to speak, while tears
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  Speaker 1: and sobs delayed her voice, until at last she said,
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  Speaker 1: what fault of mine, my dearest, has so changed your
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  Speaker 1: usual thoughts? Where is the care for me that always
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  Speaker 1: has stood first? Can you leave me for this long journey,
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  Speaker 1: with no anxious fear Halcione forsaken in these halls. Will
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  Speaker 1: this long journey be a pleasant change, Because far from
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  Speaker 1: you I should be more dear. Perhaps you think you
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  Speaker 1: will go there by land, and I shall only grieve
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  Speaker 1: and shall not fear. The sea affrights me with its
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  Speaker 1: tragic face. Just lately I observed some broken planks upon
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  Speaker 1: our sea shore, and I've read and read the names
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  Speaker 1: of seamen on their empty tombs. Oh, let no false
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  Speaker 1: assurance fill your mind, because your father in law is Eeolus,
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  Speaker 1: who in a dungeon shuts the stormful winds and smooths
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  Speaker 1: at will the troubled ocean waves. Soon as the winds
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  Speaker 1: get freedom from his power, they take entire possession of
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  Speaker 1: the deep, and nothing has forbidden their attack, and all
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  Speaker 1: the rights of every land and sea are disregarded by them.
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  Speaker 1: They insult even the clouds of heaven, and their wild
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  Speaker 1: concussions urge the lightnings to strike fires. The more I
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  Speaker 1: know of them, for I knew them in my childhood,
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  Speaker 1: and I often saw them from my far home, the
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  Speaker 1: more I fear. But, oh, dear husband, if this new
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  Speaker 1: resolve cannot be altered, by my prayers and fears. And
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  Speaker 1: if you are determined take me too, some comfort may
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  Speaker 1: be gained. If in the storms we may be tossed together,
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  Speaker 1: I shall fear only the ills that really come to us.
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  Speaker 1: Together we can certainly endure discomforts till we gain that
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  Speaker 1: distant land. Such words and tears of the daughter of
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  Speaker 1: Eolus gave Kaek's, famed son of the Morning Star, much
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  Speaker 1: thought and sorrow, for the flame of love burned in
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  Speaker 1: his heart as strongly as in hers. Reluctant to give
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  Speaker 1: up the voyage, even more to make Calcaione his partner
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  Speaker 1: on the dangerous sea, he answered her complaints in many
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  Speaker 1: ways to pacify her breast, but could not comfort her
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  Speaker 1: until at last he said, this separation from your love
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  Speaker 1: will be most sorrowful, and so I swear to you,
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  Speaker 1: as witnessed by the sacred fire of my star father,
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  Speaker 1: if the fates permit my safe return, I will come
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  Speaker 1: back to you before the moon has rounded twice her orb.
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  Speaker 1: These promises gave hope of his return without delay. He
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  Speaker 1: ordered a ship should be drawn forth from the dock,
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  Speaker 1: launched in the sea, and properly supplied against the needs
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  Speaker 1: of travel. Seeing this halcione, as if aware of future woe, shuddered, wept,
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  Speaker 1: and embraced him, and, in extreme woe, said, with a
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  Speaker 1: sad voice, ah, farewell. And then her nerveless body sank
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  Speaker 1: down to the ground. While chauks longed for some pretext
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  Speaker 1: to delay, the youthful oarsmen, chosen for their strength in
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  Speaker 1: double rows, began to draw the oars back towards their
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  Speaker 1: hardy breasts, cutting the waves with equal strokes. She raised
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  Speaker 1: her weeping eyes and saw her husband on the high
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  Speaker 1: curved stern. He, by his waving hand, made signs to her,
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  Speaker 1: and she returned his signals. Then the ship moved farther
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  Speaker 1: from the shore, until her eyes could not distinguish his
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  Speaker 1: loved countenance. Still, while she could, she followed with her
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  Speaker 1: gaze the fading hull, And when that too was lost
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  Speaker 1: far in the distance, she remained and gazed at the
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  Speaker 1: white topsales waving from the mast. But when she could
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  Speaker 1: no longer see the sails, with anxious heart, she sought
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  Speaker 1: her lonely couch and laid herself upon it. Couch and
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  Speaker 1: room renewed her sorrow and remind her how much of
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  Speaker 1: life was absent on the sea. The ship had left
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  Speaker 1: the harbor, and the breeze shook the taut rigging. Now
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  Speaker 1: the captain bade the idole ores be drawn up to
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  Speaker 1: the sides. They ran the pointed sail yards up the mast,
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  Speaker 1: and with a spread canvas, caught the coming breeze. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: the ship had not sailed half her course. On every
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  Speaker 1: side the land was out of sight, in fact, in
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  Speaker 1: a great distance. When towards dark, the sea grew white
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  Speaker 1: with its increasing waves, while boisterous east winds blew with violence.
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  Speaker 1: Prompt in his duty, the captain warns the crew lower
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  Speaker 1: the topsails, quick furl all the sails tight to the yards,
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  Speaker 1: he ordered, but the storm bore all his words away.
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  Speaker 1: His voice could not be heard above the roaring of
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  Speaker 1: the sea. But of their own accord, some sailors rushed
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  Speaker 1: to draw the oars in, others to a cure the
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  Speaker 1: sides from danger, and some strove to pull the sails
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  Speaker 1: down from the wind. One pumps the waves up from
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  Speaker 1: the hold and pours the rushing sea again into the sea.
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  Speaker 1: Another takes the yards off. While such things are being
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  Speaker 1: done without command or order, the wild storm increases, and
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  Speaker 1: on every side fierce winds wage a destructive warfare which
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  Speaker 1: stirs up the furious waters to their utmost power. Even
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  Speaker 1: the captain, terrified, confessed he did not know the status
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  Speaker 1: of the ship, and could not order nor forbid the men,
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  Speaker 1: so great the storm so far beyond his skill. Then
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  Speaker 1: he gave up control, while frightened men shouted above the
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  Speaker 1: rattled cordage. Shocks and heavy waves were dashed against huge waves,
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  Speaker 1: and all the sky reverberated with terrific thunders. The deep
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  Speaker 1: sea upturned tremendous billows, which appeared to reach so near
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  Speaker 1: the heaven they touched the heavy clouds with foam of
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  Speaker 1: their tossed waters. At one time, while the great billows
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  Speaker 1: churned up yellow sand from off the bottom, the wild
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  Speaker 1: rolling waves were of that color. At another time they
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  Speaker 1: were more black than the water of the sticks. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they leveled white with lashing foam. The ship was tossed
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  Speaker 1: about in the wild storm aloft, as if from a
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  Speaker 1: mountain peak. It seemed to look down on the valley
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  Speaker 1: and the depth of Acheron, and when sunk down in
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  Speaker 1: a trough of waves engulfing it appeared to look up
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  Speaker 1: at the zenith from infernal seas. Often the waves fell
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  Speaker 1: on the sides with crash as terrible as when a
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  Speaker 1: flying stone or iron ram shatters a citadel. As lions,
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  Speaker 1: mustering up their strength anew might hurl their breasts against
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  Speaker 1: the spears and outstretched arms of huntsmen. So the waves,
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  Speaker 1: upon the rising of the winds, rushed forth against the
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  Speaker 1: battered sides of the tossed ship, and rose much higher
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  Speaker 1: than the slanting masts. The ship bolts lost their grip.
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  Speaker 1: The loosened planks, despoiled of covering wax, gave open seams
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  Speaker 1: through which streamed water. Of the fatal waves. Vast sheets
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  Speaker 1: of rain pour from dissolving clouds, so suddenly it seemed
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  Speaker 1: that all the heavens were flung into the deep, while
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  Speaker 1: swelling seas ascended to the emptied fields of heaven. The
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  Speaker 1: sails are drenched with rain, the salt sea waves are
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  Speaker 1: mingled with the waters of the skies. The firmament is
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  Speaker 1: black without a star, and night is doubly dark with
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  Speaker 1: its own gloom and blackness of the storm. Quick lightning
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  Speaker 1: makes the black skies glitter, and the waves are fired
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  Speaker 1: with flames of thunderbolts. Now floods leap up into the
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  Speaker 1: very middle of the ship, just as a soldier more
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  Speaker 1: courageous than the rest of his brave fellows. After he
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  Speaker 1: has often charged against the embattled walls of a defended city,
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  Speaker 1: gains at length the place which he has fought for.
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  Speaker 1: All inflamed with his desire of glory, scales the wall
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  Speaker 1: and stands alone among a thousand foes. So, when destructive
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  Speaker 1: waves have beat against the ship's high sides, the tenth wave,
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  Speaker 1: with known power, rushes more furious than the nine before,
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  Speaker 1: nor ceases to attack the failing ship, until dashed high
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  Speaker 1: above the captured walls, it surges in the hold. Part
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  Speaker 1: of this is still attempting to get in the ship,
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  Speaker 1: and part is in it. All are panic stricken, like
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  Speaker 1: men within a doomed and shaken town, who see some
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  Speaker 1: foes attack the walls without and others hold possession of
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  Speaker 1: the walls. Within the city, every art has failed, their
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  Speaker 1: courage sinks. With every coming wave, another death seems rushing
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  Speaker 1: in upon them. One sailor yields in tears, another falls
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  Speaker 1: down stupefied. Another calls those blessed whom funeral rites await,
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  Speaker 1: another praise, addressing trusted gods, lifting his hands up to
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  Speaker 1: that heaven unseen as vainly he implores some aid divine,
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  Speaker 1: and one in fright recalls his brothers and his parent,
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  Speaker 1: while another names his children and his home. Each frightened
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  Speaker 1: sailor thinks of all he left. King Kaoks thinks only
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  Speaker 1: of Halcyane. No other name is on his lips but hers,
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  Speaker 1: And though he longs for her, yet he is glad
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  Speaker 1: that she is safe at home. Ah how he tried
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  Speaker 1: to look back to the shore of his loved land,
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  Speaker 1: to turn his last gaze towards his wife and home,
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  Speaker 1: but he has lost direction. The tossed sea is raging
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  Speaker 1: in a hurricane, so vast and all the sky is
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  Speaker 1: hidden by the gloom of thickened storm clouds doubled in
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  Speaker 1: pitch black. The mast is shattered by the violence of
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  Speaker 1: drenching tempests, and the useless helm is broken. One undaunted
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  Speaker 1: giant wave stands over wreck and spoil, and looks down
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  Speaker 1: like a conqueror upon the other waves. Then falls as
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  Speaker 1: heavily as if some god should hurl Mount Athos or
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  Speaker 1: Mount Pindus, torn from rock foundations into that wide sea.
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  Speaker 1: So with down rushing weight and violence, it struck and
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  Speaker 1: plunged the ship to the lowest deeps, and as the
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  Speaker 1: ship sank, many of the crew sank overwhelmed in deep
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  Speaker 1: surrounding waves, never to rise from suffocating death. But some,
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  Speaker 1: in desperation clung for life to broken timbers and escaped
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  Speaker 1: that fate. King Kaoks clung to a fragment of the
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  Speaker 1: wreck with that majestic hand which often before had proudly
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  Speaker 1: swayed the scepter, and in vane alas he called upon
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  Speaker 1: his father's name, alas he begged his father in law's support.
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  Speaker 1: But while he swam, his lips most frequently pronounced that
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  Speaker 1: dearest name, Halcione. He longs to have his body carried
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  Speaker 1: by waves to her dear gaze, and have at last
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  Speaker 1: entombment by the hands of his loved friends. Swimming he
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  Speaker 1: called Halcione far off, as often as the billows would
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  Speaker 1: allow his lips to open, and among the waves, his
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  Speaker 1: darling's name was murmured, till at last a night black
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  Speaker 1: arch of water swept above the highest waves and buried
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  Speaker 1: him beneath engulfing billows. Lucifer was dim past recognition when
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  Speaker 1: the dawn appeared, and since he never could depart from Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: soon hid his grieving countenance in clouds. Meanwhile, Halciane, all
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  Speaker 1: unaware of his sad wreck, counts off the passing nights
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  Speaker 1: and hastens to prepare for him his clothes that he
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  Speaker 1: may wear as soon as he returns to her. And
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  Speaker 1: she is choosing what to wear herself, and vainly promise
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  Speaker 1: is his safe return. All this indeed, while she and
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  Speaker 1: hallowed prayer as giving frankincense to please the gods, and
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  Speaker 1: first of loving adorations she paid at the shrine of Juno.
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  Speaker 1: There she prayed for Chaeks, after he had suffered death,
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  Speaker 1: that he might journey safely in return and might love
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  Speaker 1: her above all other women. This one last prayer alone
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  Speaker 1: was granted to her, But Juno could not long accept
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  Speaker 1: as hers these supplications on behalf of one then dead,
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  Speaker 1: and that she might persuade Halcione to turn her death
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  Speaker 1: polluted hands away from hallowed altars. Juno said, in haste, o, Iris,
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  Speaker 1: best of all my messengers, go quickly to the dreadful
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  Speaker 1: court of sleep, and in my name, command him to
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  Speaker 1: dispatch a dream in the shape of Chaeks, who is dead,
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  Speaker 1: and tell Halciane the woeful truth. So she commanded, Iris
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  Speaker 1: instantly assumed a garment of a thousand tints, and as
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  Speaker 1: she marked the high skies with her arch went swiftly,
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  Speaker 1: thence as ordered to the place where sleep was then concealed.
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  Speaker 1: Beneath a rock near the Chimerian land, there is a
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  Speaker 1: cave with a long entrance in a hallowed mountain, the
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  Speaker 1: home of slothful sleep. To that dark cave, the sun,
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  Speaker 1: when rising or in middle skies or setting, never can
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  Speaker 1: approach with light. There, dense fogs, mingled with the dark,
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  Speaker 1: exhale darkness from the black soil, and all that place
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  Speaker 1: is shadowed in a deep, mysterious gloom. No wakeful bird
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  Speaker 1: with visage crested high calls forth the morning's beauty in
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  Speaker 1: clear notes. Nor do the watchful dogs, more watchful geese,
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  Speaker 1: nor wild beasts cattle, nor the waving trees make sound
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  Speaker 1: or whisper. And the human voice is never heard there.
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  Speaker 1: Silent rest is there, But from the bottom of a rock.
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  Speaker 1: Beneath Lethian waters of a stream ooze forth sounds of
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  Speaker 1: a rivulet, which trickle with soft murmuring amid the pebbles,
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  Speaker 1: and invite soft sleep. Before the cavern doors, most fertile
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  Speaker 1: poppies and a wealth of herbs bloom in abundance, from
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  Speaker 1: the juice of which the humid night hours gather sleep
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  Speaker 1: and spread it over darkened earth. No door is in
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  Speaker 1: that cavern home, and not a hinge's noise nor guarding
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  Speaker 1: porter's voice disturbs the calm. But in the middle is
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  Speaker 1: a resting couch raised high on night, black ebony and
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  Speaker 1: soft with feathered cushions, all jet black, concealed by a
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  Speaker 1: rich coverlet as dark as night, on which the God
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  Speaker 1: of Sleep, dissolved in sloth, lies with unmoving limbs around him.
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  Speaker 1: There in all directions, unsubstantial dreams recline in imitation of
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  Speaker 1: all shapes, as many as the uncounted ears of corn
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  Speaker 1: at harvest, as the myriad leaves of trees or tiny
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  Speaker 1: sand grains spread upon the shore. As soon as Iris
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  Speaker 1: entered that dread gloom, she pushed aside the visions in
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  Speaker 1: her way with her fair, glowing hands, and instantly that
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  Speaker 1: sacred cavern of the God of Sleep was all illuminated
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  Speaker 1: with the glow and splendor of her garment. Out of himself,
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  Speaker 1: the God, with difficulty lifted up his languid eyes from
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  Speaker 1: this small sign of life, relapsing many times to languid sloth.
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  Speaker 1: While nodding with his chin, he struck his breast again
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  Speaker 1: and again. At last he roused himself from gloom and slumber,
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  Speaker 1: and while raised upon his elbow, he inquired of Iris
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  Speaker 1: why she came to him. He knew her by her name.
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  Speaker 1: She answered him, O, Sleep, divine repose of all things,
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  Speaker 1: gentlest of the deities. Peace to the troubled mind, from
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  Speaker 1: which you drive the cares of life, restorer of men's strength.
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  Speaker 1: When wearied by the toils of day, command a vision
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  Speaker 1: that shall seem the actual form of royal chaics. To
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  Speaker 1: visit Trachin, famed for Hercules, and tell Halcione his death
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  Speaker 1: by shipwreck. It is Juno's wish. Iris departed after this
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  Speaker 1: was said, for she no longer could endure the effect
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  Speaker 1: of slumber vapor, And as soon as she knew sleep
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  Speaker 1: was creeping over her tired limbs, she flew from there.
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  Speaker 1: And she departed by the rainbow over which she came before.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the multitude his thousand sons, the god of
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  Speaker 1: Sleep deep raised Morpheus by his power, most skillful of
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  Speaker 1: his sons, who had the art of imitating any human shape,
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  Speaker 1: and dexterously could imitate in men the gate and countenance,
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  Speaker 1: and every mode of speaking. He could simulate the dress
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  Speaker 1: and customary words of any man he chose to represent,
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  Speaker 1: But he could not have seen the form of anything
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  Speaker 1: but man, such was his art. Another of sleep sons
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  Speaker 1: could imitate all kinds of animals, such as a wild beast,
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  Speaker 1: or a flying bird, or even a serpent with its
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  Speaker 1: twisted shape. And that son by the gods above, was
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  Speaker 1: called Chelos, but the inhabitants of earth called him Phobator.
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  Speaker 1: And a third son named Phantisos cleverly could change himself
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  Speaker 1: into the forms of earth that have no life, into
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  Speaker 1: a statue, water, or a tree. It was the habit
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  Speaker 1: of these three to show themselves at night to kings
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  Speaker 1: and generals, and other sons would frequently appear among the
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  Speaker 1: people of the common class. All such The aged god
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  Speaker 1: of Sleep passed by, selecting only Morpheus from among the
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  Speaker 1: many brothers to accomplish this and execute what I had desired.
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  Speaker 1: And after all that work, he dropped his head and
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  Speaker 1: sank again in languid drowsiness, shrinking to sloth within his
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  Speaker 1: lofty couch. Morpheus at once flew through night of darkness
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  Speaker 1: on his wings that make no sound, And in brief
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  Speaker 1: space of intervening time, arrived at the Haimonian city of Walls,
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  Speaker 1: and there he laid aside his wings and took the
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  Speaker 1: face and form of Chaoks, in that form as one
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  Speaker 1: deprived of life, devoid of clothes, wan and ghastly, he
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  Speaker 1: stood beside the bed of the sad wife. The hero's
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  Speaker 1: beard seemed dripping. Sea water streamed down from his drenching hair. Then,
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  Speaker 1: leaning on the bed, while dropping tears were running down
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  Speaker 1: his cheeks, he said these words, most wretched wife, Can
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  Speaker 1: you still recognize your own loved Chaeoks? Or have my
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  Speaker 1: looks changed so much with death? You cannot look at me?
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  Speaker 1: And you will be assured I am your own. But
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  Speaker 1: here instead of your dear husband, you will find only
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  Speaker 1: his ghost. Your faithful did not avail Halcione, and I
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  Speaker 1: have perished, give up all deluding hopes of my return.
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  Speaker 1: The stormy south wind caught my ship while sailing the
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  Speaker 1: Aegean Sea, and there, tossed by the mighty wind, my
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  Speaker 1: ship was dashed to pieces. While I vainly called upon
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  Speaker 1: your name, the angry waters closed above my drowning head.
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  Speaker 1: And it is no uncertain messenger that tells you this,
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  Speaker 1: And nothing from vague rumors has been told. But it
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  Speaker 1: is I myself, come from the wreck now telling you
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  Speaker 1: my fate. Come then arise, shed tears and put on mourning.
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  Speaker 1: Do not send me unlamented down to Tartarus. And Morpheus
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  Speaker 1: added to these words a voice which she would certainly
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  Speaker 1: believe was her beloved husband's, And he seemed to be
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  Speaker 1: shedding fond human tears, and even his hands were moved
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  Speaker 1: in gestures that Chaeuks often used. Halcione shed tears and
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  Speaker 1: groaned aloud, and as she moved her arms and caught
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  Speaker 1: at his dear body, she embraced the vacant air. She
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  Speaker 1: cried out loudly, stay, oh, stay with me. Why do
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  Speaker 1: you hurry from me? We will go together. Agitated by
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  Speaker 1: her own excited voice and by what seemed to be
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  Speaker 1: her own dear husband, she awoke from sleep and first
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  Speaker 1: looked all about her to persuade herself that he whom
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  Speaker 1: she had lately seen, must yet be with her, for
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  Speaker 1: she had aroused the servants, who in haste brought lights
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  Speaker 1: desired when she could find him nowhere. In despair, she
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  Speaker 1: struck her face and tore her garment from her breast,
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  Speaker 1: and beat her breast with mourning hands. She did not
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  Speaker 1: wait to loosen her long hair, but tore it with
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  Speaker 1: her hands. And to her nurse, who asked the cause
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  Speaker 1: of her wild grief, she cried, Alas, how kind he
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  Speaker 1: is no more, no more with her own caos she
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  Speaker 1: is dead, is dead, away with words of comfort. He
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  Speaker 1: is lost by shipwreck. I have seen him, and I
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  Speaker 1: knew him, surely as a ghost. He came to me,
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  Speaker 1: And when desirous to detain him, I stretched forth my
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  Speaker 1: arms to him. His ghost left me at vanished from me.
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  Speaker 1: But it surely was the ghost of my dead husband.
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  Speaker 1: If you asked description of it, I must truly say
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  Speaker 1: he did not have his well known features. He was
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  Speaker 1: not so cheerful as he was in life. Alas, I
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  Speaker 1: saw him pale and naked, with his hair still dripping.
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  Speaker 1: His ghost from the waves stood on this very spot,
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  Speaker 1: And while she moaned, she saw his footprints on the floor. Alas,
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  Speaker 1: this was my fear. This is what my mind shuddered
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  Speaker 1: to think of when I begged that you would not
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  Speaker 1: desert me for the wind's control. But how I wish,
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  Speaker 1: since you were sailing forth to perish that you had
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  Speaker 1: but taken me with you. If I had gone with you,
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  Speaker 1: it would have been advantage to me, for I should
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  Speaker 1: have shared the whole course of my life with you,
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  Speaker 1: and you would not have met a separate death. I
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  Speaker 1: linger here, but I have met my death. I toss
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  Speaker 1: on waves and adrift upon the sea. My heart would
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  Speaker 1: be more cruel than the waves if it should ask
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  Speaker 1: me to endure this life, if I should struggle to
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  Speaker 1: survive such grief, I will not strive, nor leave you
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  Speaker 1: sore forlorn. At least I'll follow you to death. If
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  Speaker 1: not the urn, at least the lettered stone shall keep
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  Speaker 1: us still together. If your bones are not united with
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  Speaker 1: my bones, tis sure our names must be united. Overcome
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  Speaker 1: with grief, she could not say another word, but she
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  Speaker 1: continued wailing, and her crones were heaved up from her
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  Speaker 1: sorrow stricken breast. At early dawn, she went from her
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  Speaker 1: debode down to the sea shore, where, most wretchedly she
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  Speaker 1: stood upon the spot from which he sailed, and sadly said,
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  Speaker 1: he lingered here while he was loosening the cables, and
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  Speaker 1: kissed me on this sea shore when he left me here,
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  Speaker 1: And while she called to recollection all that she had
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  Speaker 1: seen when standing there, And while she looked far out
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: on flowing waves, from there, she noticed floating on the
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: distant sea. What shall I say? At first, even she
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: could not be sure of what she saw. But presently,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: although still distant, it was certainly a floating corpse. She
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  Speaker 1: could not see what man he might be, But because
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  Speaker 1: it seemed to her it surely was a shipwrecked body,
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  Speaker 1: she was moved as at an omen, and began to
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  Speaker 1: weep and moaning as she stood there, said, Ah, wretched one,
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  Speaker 1: whoever it may be, Ah wretched, is the wife whom
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  Speaker 1: you have left. As driven by the waves, the body
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  Speaker 1: came still nearer to her. She was less and less
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  Speaker 1: the mistress of herself the more she looked upon it,
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  Speaker 1: and when it was close enough for her to see
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  Speaker 1: its features, she beheld her husband. It is he, she cried,
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  Speaker 1: And then she tore her face, her hair, her royal robe,
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  Speaker 1: and then, extending both her trembling hands towards chaeoks, So,
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  Speaker 1: dearest one, so do you come to me again? She cried? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: luckless mate. A mole made by the craft of man
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  Speaker 1: adjoins the sea and breaks the shoreward rush of waves.
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  Speaker 1: To this she leaped, it seemed impossible, And then, while
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  Speaker 1: beating the light air with wings that instant formed upon her,
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  Speaker 1: she flew on a morning bird and skimmed above the waves.
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  Speaker 1: And while she lightly flew across the sea, her clacking mouth,
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  Speaker 1: with its long, slender bill full of complaining, uttered moaning sounds.
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  Speaker 1: But when she touched the still and pallid form, embracing
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  Speaker 1: his dear limbs with her new wings, she gave cold
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  Speaker 1: kisses with her hardened bill. All those who saw it
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  Speaker 1: doubted whether cakes could feel her kisses, and it seemed
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  Speaker 1: to them the moving waves had raised his countenance, but
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  Speaker 1: he was truly conscious of her grief, and through the
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  Speaker 1: pity of the gods above, at last they both were
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  Speaker 1: changed to flying birds. Together in their fate, their love
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  Speaker 1: lived on. Nor in these birds were marriage bonds dissolved,
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  Speaker 1: and they soon coupled and were parent birds. Each winter,
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  Speaker 1: during sevenfol days of calm, hal Chaione broods on her
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  Speaker 1: floating nest, her nest that sails upon a halcyon sea.
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  Speaker 1: The passage of the deep is free from storms throughout
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  Speaker 1: those seven full days, and Aeolus restraining harmful winds with
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  Speaker 1: will in their cave for his descendant's sake gives halcyon seas.
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  Speaker 1: An old man saw the two birds fly across the
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  Speaker 1: wide extended sea, and praised their love and dying to
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  Speaker 1: the end. His old friend, who stood near him, said,
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  Speaker 1: there is another bird which you can see, skiving above
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  Speaker 1: the waves with folded legs drawn up. And as he spoke,
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  Speaker 1: he pointed at a dive dapper which had a long throat,
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  Speaker 1: and continued. It was the first son of a great king,
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  Speaker 1: as Chaeus was, and if you wish to know his ancestry,
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  Speaker 1: I can assure you he descended from Ilis Asaracus and Ganimede,
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  Speaker 1: taken by Jupiter and old Laomidon and Priam ruler at
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  Speaker 1: the fall of Troy. Esicus was the brother of the
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  Speaker 1: great Illustrius Hector, and if he had not been victimized
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  Speaker 1: by a strange fate in youth, he would have equalled
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  Speaker 1: Hector's glorious fame. Hector was child of Hecuba, who was
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  Speaker 1: daughter of Demus Alexei Roe, the daughter of the two
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: horned Granicus. So rumor has it secretly brought forth Esicus
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: hidden under Ida's shade. He loathed the city and away
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  Speaker 1: from court frequented lonely mountains and the fields of unambitious peasants.
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  Speaker 1: Rarely he was seen among the throngs of ilium. Yet
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  Speaker 1: neither churlish nor impregnable to love's appeal, He saw Hesperia,
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  Speaker 1: the daughter of Cabrinus, while she was once resting on
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  Speaker 1: the velvet shaded banks of her sire's cherished stream. Eschus
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  Speaker 1: had so often sought for her through the woods, just
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  Speaker 1: when he saw her. While she rested there, her hair
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  Speaker 1: spread on her shoulders to the sun, she saw him,
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  Speaker 1: and without delay she fled, even as the frightened deer
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  Speaker 1: runs from the wolf, or as the water duck. When
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: she has left her favored stream, surprised flies from the hawk.
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  Speaker 1: Esiccus followed her as swift with love, as she was
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  Speaker 1: swift with fear. But in the grass, a lurking snake
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  Speaker 1: struck at her rosy heel and left its venom in
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  Speaker 1: her flesh, and so her flight was ended by untimely death.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Oh frantic, he embraced her breathless forem and cried, alas,
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  Speaker 1: alas that I pursued. I did not dream of such
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  Speaker 1: a dreadful fate. Success was not worth such a price.
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  Speaker 1: I and the snake together caused your death. The serpent
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  Speaker 1: gave the wound. I was the cause. Mine is the
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  Speaker 1: greater guilt, and by my death I'll give you consolation
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  Speaker 1: for your death. He said those words, and leaped on
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  Speaker 1: a high rock which years of sounding waves had undermined,
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  Speaker 1: and hurled himself into the sea below. Tethys was moved
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  Speaker 1: with pity for his fall, and received him softly, and
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  Speaker 1: then covered him with feathers as he swam among the waves.
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  Speaker 1: The death he sought for was not granted him. At
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  Speaker 1: this the lover was wroth against his will. He was
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  Speaker 1: obliged to live in his distress, with opposition to his
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: spirit that desired departure from the wretched pain of life.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: As he assumed upon his shoulders, wings new formed, he
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: flew aloft, and from that height again he plunged his
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: body in the waves. His feathers broke all danger of
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that fall, and this new bird, Esicus, plunged headlong into
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the deep and tried incessantly that method of destruction. His
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: great love, unsatisfied, made his sad body lean till even
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  Speaker 1: the spaces fixed between the joints of his legs have
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: grown long. His neck is long, so that his head
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  Speaker 1: is far away from his lean body. Still he hunts
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  Speaker 1: the sea and takes his name from diving in the waves.
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  Speaker 1: End of Book eleven, Part three. Recording by David Goldfarb, Houston, Texas.