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Exiled didst quit thy land, or by what hap?

In a sort exiled—willing, and yet loth.

Yet long-desired from Argos hast thou come.

Of me, not: if of thee, see thou to that.

Now wouldst thou tell a thing I fain would know?

Ay—a straw added to my trouble's weight.

Troy haply know'st thou, famed the wide world through?

Would I did not,—not even seen in dreams!

They say she is no more, by spears o'erthrown.

So is it: things not unfulfilled ye heard.

Came Helen back to Menelaus' home?