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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=339868" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Pastor Cum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When he, that shepherd false, 'neath Phrygian sail ;<br>Carried his hostess Helen o'er the seas,<br>In fitful slumber Nereus hush'd the gales,<br>That he might sing their future destinies.<br>A curse to your ancestral home you take<br>With her, whom Greece, with many a soldier bold,<br>Shall seek again, in concert sworn to break<br>Your nuptial ties and Priam's kingdom old.<br>Alas ! what sweat from man and horse must flow,<br>What devastation to the Trojan realm<br>You carry, even now doth Pallas show<br>Her wrath—preparing buckler, car, and helm.<br>In vain, secure in Aphrodite's care,<br>You comb your locks, and on the girlish lyre<br>Select the strains most pleasant to the fair ;<br>In vain, on couch reclining, you desire<br>To shun the darts that threaten, and the thrust<br>Of Cretan lance, the battle's wild turmoil,<br>And Ajax swift to follow—in the dust<br>Condemned, though late, your wanton curls to soil.<br>Ah ! see you not where (fatal to your race)<br>Laertes' son comes with the Pylean sage ;<br>Fearless alike, with Teucer joins the chase<br>Steneläus, skill'd the fistic strife to wage,<br>Nor less expert the fiery steeds to quell ;<br>And Meriones, you must know. Behold<br>A warrior, than his sire more fierce and fell,<br>To find you rages,—Diomed the bold,<br>Whom, like the stag that, far across the vale,<br>The wolf being seen, no herbage can allure,<br>So fly you, panting sorely, dastard pale !—<br>Not thus you boasted to your paramour.<br>Achilles' anger for a space defers<br>The day of wrath to Troy and Trojan dame ;<br>Inevitable glide the allotted years,<br>And Dardan roofs must waste in Argive flame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Adam+Lindsay+Gordon">Adam Lindsay Gordon</a><div class=q>
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Carried his hostess Helen o'er the seas,
In fitful slumber Nereus hush'd the gales,
That he might sing their future destinies.
A curse to your ancestral home you take
With her, whom Greece, with..."></div>
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