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Was clogg'd with slimy dung and<br />

mingled gore.<br />

(<strong>The</strong> self-same place beside Patroclus'<br />

pyre,<br />

Where late the slaughter'd victims<br />

fed the fire.)<br />

Besmear'd with filth, and blotted<br />

o'er with clay,<br />

Obscene to sight, the rueful racer<br />

lay;<br />

<strong>The</strong> well-fed bull (the second prize)<br />

he shared,<br />

And left the urn Ulysses' rich reward.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n, grasping by the horn the<br />

mighty beast,<br />

<strong>The</strong> baffled hero thus the Greeks<br />

address'd:<br />

"Accursed fate! the conquest I forego;<br />

A mortal I, a goddess was my foe;

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