t winter, another again,
Yet in many a night's long dream had sated her yearning, 85
So that love might wear cheerly, the master away;
Which not long should abide, so presag'd surely the Parcae, (85)
If to the wars her lord hurry, for Ilion arm.

Now to revenge fair Helen, had Argos' chiefs, her puissance,
Set them afield; for Troy rous'd them, a cry not of home, 90
Troy, dark death universal, of Asia grave and Europe,
Altar of heroes Troy, Troy of heroical acts, (90)

Now to my own dear brother abhorred worker of ancient
Death. Ah woeful soul, brother, unhappily lost,
Ah fair light unblest, in darkness sadly receding, 95
All our house lies low, brother, inearthed in you,
Quench'd untimely with you, joy waits not ever a morrow, (95)
Joy which alive your love's bounty fed hour upon hour.
Now on a distant shore, no kind mortality near him,
Far all household love, every familiar urn, 100
Tomb'd in Troy the malign, in Troy the unholy reposing,
Strangely the land's last verge holds him, a dungeon of earth. (100)

Thither in haste all Greece, one armed people assembling,
Flock'd on an ancient day, left the recesses of home,
Lest in a safe content, unreach'd, his stolen adultress. 105
Paris inarm, in soft luxury quietly lain.

E'en such chance, fair queen, such misery, Laodamia, (105)
Brought thee a loss as life precious, as heavenly breath.
Loss of a bridegroom dear; such whirling passion in eddies
Suck'd thee adown, so drew sheer to a sudden abyss, 110
Deep as Graian abyss near Pheneos o'er Cyllene,
Strainer of ooze impure milk'd from a watery fen; (110)
Hewn, so stories avouch, in a mountain's kernel; an hero
Hew'd it, falsely declar'd Amphytrionian, he,
When those monster birds near grim Stymphalus his arrow 115
Smote to the death; such task bade him a dastardly lord.
So that another God might tread that portal of heaven (115)
Freely, nor Hebe fair wither a chaste eremite.
Yet than abyss more deep thy love, thy depth of emotion;
Love which school'd thy lord, made of a master a thrall. 120

Not to a grandsire old so priz'd, so lovely the grandson
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