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For whom was the night's first watch proclaimed?

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For the scion of Mygdon, Korœbus named.

Who then?

The Paionians roused the folk

Of Cilicia: us the Mysians woke.

High time is it then that we hasted to call

The Lycians; to them did the fifth watch fall,

When the lot to our stations assigned us all.

I hear, I hear—'tis the nightingale! The mother that slew her child—

As broodeth her wing o'er the fearful thing, the eternal murder-stain—

By Simoïs chanteth her heart-stricken wail ; the voice of her woe rings wild,

As passions a lute of many a string,—winged poet of hopeless pain!