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, pass to the couch of Hector your lord,

Ye watchful henchmen that guard his sleep,

If perchance he will hearken our tidings, the word

Of them through the night's fourth watch that keep

The wide war-host safe-fenced with the spear.

Ho! raise thine head on thine arm upstaying;

Unseal thine eyes, the battle-dismaying:

Leap from thine earth-strewn leaf-bed sere,

Hector: 'tis time to hear.

Enter Hector from the tent.

Who cometh?—the voice of a friend?—what wight?

The watchword give. Speak thou!

Who are ye that draw nigh in the hours of the night

To my couch? Ye must answer now.

Sentinels we.