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Cyclops. Ah me! my eyesight is parched up to cinders.

Chorus. What a sweet pæan ! sing me that again!

Cyclops. Ah me! indeed, what woe has fallen upon me!

But wretched nothings, think ye not to flee

Out of this rock; I, standing at the outlet,

Are sprained with standing here, I know Will bar the way and catch you as you

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I know ye better.-I will use the aid Of my own comrades-yet though weak of hand

Speak cheerfully, that so ye may awaken The courage of my friends with your blithe words.

Chorus. This I will do with peril of my life,

Chorus. What, did you fall into the fire when drunk?

Cyclops. 'Twas Nobody destroyed

me. Chorus. Can be to blame. Cyclops. Who blinded me. Chorus.

blind.

Why then no one

I say 'twas Nobody

Why then you are not

Cyclops. I wish you were as blind as I am. Chorus.

Nay,

It cannot be that no one made you blind. Cyclops. You jeer me; where, I ask, is Nobody?

Chorus. Nowhere, O Cyclops. Cyclops. It was that stranger ruined me-the wretch

First gave me wine and then burnt out

my eye,

And blind you with my exhortations, For wine is strong and hard to struggle

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Chorus.

You have them.

Cyclops.

Near the rock itself. I will descend upon the shore, though

on misfortune!

I've cracked my skull.

Chorus.

there.

Cyclops.

say so.

Chorus.

blind,

Oh, misfortune Groping my way adown the steep

Now they escape you

Not there, although you

Cyclops. Where then?

Chorus.

Not on that side.

They creep about

you on your left.

Cyclops. Ah! I am mocked! They jeer me in my ills.

Chorus. Not there! he is a little there beyond you.

Cyclops. Detested wretch! where are you?

Ulysses.

Far from you I keep with care this body of Ulysses. Cyclops. What do you say? You proffer a new name.

Ulysses. My father named me so; and I have taken

A full revenge for your unnatural feast; I should have done ill to have burned

down Troy

And not revenged the murder of my comrades.

Cyclops. Ai! ai! the ancient oracle is accomplished;

It said that I should have my eyesight

blinded

By you coming from Troy, yet it foretold

That you should pay the penalty for this

By wandering long over the homeless

sea.

Ulysses. I bid thee weep-consider what I say,

ravine.

Chorus. And we, the shipmates of
Ulysses now,

Will serve our Bacchus all our happy lives.

EPIGRAMS

I. TO STELLA

FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO

THOU wert the morning star among the

living,

Ere thy fair light had fled;——— Now, having died, thou art as Hesperus, giving

New splendour to the dead.

II. KISSING HELENA

FROM THE GREEK OF PLATO

KISSING Helena, together

With my kiss, my soul beside it

Came to my lips, and there I kept it,

For the poor thing had wandered thither, To follow where the kiss should guide

it,

Oh, cruel I, to intercept it!

III. SPIRIT OF PLATO

FROM THE GREEK

EAGLE! why soarest thou above that tomb?

I go towards the shore to drive my ship
To mine own land, o'er the Sicilian To

wave.

Cyclops. Not so, if whelming you with this huge stone

I can crush you and all your men together;

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I am the image of swift Plato's spirit, Ascending heaven-Athens doth inherit His corpse below.

IV. CIRCUMSTANCE

FROM THE GREEK

A MAN who was about to hang himself, Finding a purse, then threw away his

rope;

The owner, coming to reclaim his pelf, The halter found and used it. So is Hope

Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf,

A deeper Venus bears upon her heart. See, his beloved dogs are gathering round

The Oread nymphs are weeping— Aphrodite

With hair unbound is wandering thro' the woods,

Wildered, ungirt,

thorns pierce

unsandalled - the

Her hastening feet and drink her sacred blood.

Bitterly screaming out she is driven on We take the other. Under heaven's Thro' the long vales; and her Assyrian

high cope

boy,

Fortune is God-all you endure and do Her love, her husband calls-the purple Depends on circumstance as much as

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blood

From his struck thigh stains her white navel now,

Her bosom, and her neck before like

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That I may kiss thee now for the last Tempt my unquiet mind.—But w time

the roar

foam

But for as long as one short kiss may Of Ocean's gray abyss resounds, z

live

Oh let thy breath flow from thy dying soul

Even to my mouth and heart, that may suck

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Gathers upon the sea, and vast was:
burst,

II turn from the drear aspect to the E
Of earth and its deep woods, when

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FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON Whose house is some lone bark, whose

THE DEATH OF BION

FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS

YE Dorian woods and waves lament aloud,

Augment your tide, O streams, with fruitless tears,

For the beloved Bion is no more.
Let every tender herb and plant and

flower,

toil the sea,

Whose prey the wandering fish, an ev

lot

Has chosen. But I my languid limb will fling

Beneath the plane, where the brookmurmuring

Moves the calm spirit, but disturbs

not.

From each dejected bud and drooping PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR

bloom,

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Begin, and, whilst the goats are brows- And that no change, nor any evil chance

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