"O mother, hear me yet before I die.
Hear me, O earth. I will not die alone,
Lest their shrill happy laughter come to me
Walking the cold and starless road of death
Uncomforted, leaving my ancient love 256
With the Greek woman. I will rise and go
Down into Troy, and ere the stars come
forth

Talk with the wild Cassandra, for she says
A fire dances before her, and a sound 260
Rings ever in her ears of armèd men.
What this may be I know not, but I know

That, whereso'er I am by night and day,
All earth and air seem only burning fire.'

Was seen far inland, and the yellow down
Bordered with palm, and many a winding

And, like a downward smoke, the slender And sweet it was to dream of Fatherland,

stream

Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem.

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foam.

A land of streams! some, like a downward Weary the wandering fields of barren smoke, Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go; And some through wavering lights and shadows broke,

Then some one said, "We will return no more;"

And all at once they sang, "Our island home

Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam."

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And clattering flints battered with clang- At last methought that I had wandered far

"Pass freely through: the wood is all thine The bright death quivered at the victim's

As once they drew into two burning rings The Nilus would have risen before his time All beams of Love, melting the mighty And flooded at our nod.

"And the wild kiss, when fresh from war's "The torrent brooks of hallowed Israel alarms,

Of the other; with a worm I balked his All night the splintered crags that wall fame.

With that she tore her robe apart, and As one that museth where broad sunshine half