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faded wife to seek, And rule his steep rock-walls, and sniff the sea 'Twere better so, he deems, than mate with me, And drain the sweetness of immortal love Blind fool

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first beams with gladness, and piled up Ambrosia with the nectar's heavenly juice Within them. Then I seized his hand and burnt One kiss upon it, turned and sought the grove. But he sailed forth beneath the glimmering stars. w. a M.

isle,

barren rocklet edged with foam, was his kingdom. Thou I looked around, Ming all my floral wealth th ruddy corn ; apples, such 11

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Heaved on her

him mine.

call

Lo gleams That break before my nymphs arrive the shore So seven years long I plied the gloomy wretch, But then relented. Let the hero go

.

Ulysses, crafty hero,

me.

suffer greatly, true in all to

Then, home returning, I would

how many mortal wives

men

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Yet something noble lights this human love. Methinks myself had yielded to its charm Were my life bounded by a brief three-score. A hero then I'd choose, and hold him dear, And he should fight and travel and be strong,

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Is this that earth-born fancy girls call love

ilow'rs,

of earth, who double woes cares unto their own

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That home-sick wretch, TJlysses, had he twined His arm once round my waist, mine end was won Deep 'neath mid ocean's deepest wells for aye My wrath had laid him and without a pang

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