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[pg<br />

076]<br />

And age the lot <strong>of</strong> any chief but<br />

thee."<br />

Thus to the experienced prince<br />

Atrides cried;<br />

He shook his hoary locks, and thus<br />

replied:<br />

"Well might I wish, could mortal<br />

wish renew 134<br />

That strength which once in boiling<br />

youth I knew;<br />

Such as I was, when Ereuthalion,<br />

slain<br />

Beneath this arm, fell prostrate on<br />

the plain.<br />

But heaven its gifts not all at once<br />

bestows,<br />

<strong>The</strong>se years with wisdom crowns,<br />

with action those:<br />

<strong>The</strong> field <strong>of</strong> combat fits the young<br />

and bold,

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