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And now it rises, now it sinks by<br />

turns.<br />

Meanwhile, where Hellespont's<br />

broad waters flow,<br />

Stood Nestor's son, the messenger<br />

<strong>of</strong> woe:<br />

<strong>The</strong>re sat Achilles, shaded by his<br />

sails,<br />

On hoisted yards extended to the<br />

gales;<br />

Pensive he sat; for all that fate<br />

design'd<br />

Rose in sad prospect to his boding<br />

mind.<br />

Thus to his soul he said: "Ah! what<br />

constrains<br />

<strong>The</strong> Greeks, late victors, now to<br />

quit the plains?<br />

Is this the day, which heaven so<br />

long ago<br />

Ordain'd, to sink me with the<br />

weight <strong>of</strong> woe?

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