SELECTIONS IN ENGLISH, POETRY
Prepared themselves for glorious enterprise
By martial sports,—or, seated in the tent,
Chuytan^	;
What time theHeerat Aulis lay enchained.	120
The wished-for wind was given : — I then revolved
The oracle, upon .the silent sea ;
And, if no worthier led the way, resolved
That, of a thousand vessels, mine should ke
The foremost prow in pressing to the strand,-
Mine the first blood that tinged the Trojan sand.
'Yet bitter, oft-times bitter, was the pang      ,
When of thy loss I thought, beloved Wife 4
On thee too fondly did my memory hang,
And on the joys we shared in mortal life, —	130
The paths which we had trod — these fountains, flowers;
My new-planned cities, and unfinished towers.
^4 But should suspense permit the Foe to cry,
*' Behold they tremble! — haughty their array,
Yet of their number no one dares to die" ?	j^c
In souLJ -.gwegt the indignity away :
2535^	thought,
In act embodied, my deliverance
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'And thou, though strong in love, art all too weaK
In reason, in self-government too slow;	140
I counsel thee by fortitude to seek
Our blest re-union in the shades below.
The invisible world with thee hath sympathized;
Be thy affections raised and solemnized.
"Learn, by a mortal yearning, to ascend, —	145
Seeking a higher object. Love was given,
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