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Despair, and rage, and love divide her heart;
Despair and rage had some, but love the greater part.
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O impotence of man's frail mind
To fate and to the future blind,
Presumptuous and o'erweening still
When Fortune follows at its will!
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The souls that throng the flood
Are those to whom, by Fate, are other bodies owed,
In Lethe's lake they long oblivion taste,
Of future life secure, forgetful of the past.
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Darkling they went under the lonely night through the shadow and through the empty dwellings and unsubstantial realms of Hades.
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We Trojans are at an end, Ilium has ended and the vast glory of the Trojans.
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How altered from the man we knew,
Our Hector, who from day's long toil
Comes radiant in Achilles' spoil.
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Be this your nobler praise in times to come,
These your imperial arts, ye sons of Rome!
O'er distant realms to stretch your awful sway,
To bid those nations tremble and obey;
To crush the proud, the suppliant foe to rear,
To give mankind a peace, or shake the world with war.
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That happy place, the green groves of the dwelling of the blest.
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Who knows what changeful fortune may produce?
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Now, prostrate by an unmeant wound,
In death he welters on the ground,
And gazing on Italian skies
Of his loved Argos dreams, and dies.
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Sighs, groans, and tears, proclaim his inward pains,
But the firm purpose of his heart remains.
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Let me be suffered to extend
Compassion to a hapless friend.
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Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert.
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There in the bottom of the pit
Sits Theseus, and will ever sit.
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Dire agonies, wild terrors swarm,
And Death glares grim in many a form.
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Wars, horrid wars, I view—a field of blood,
And Tiber rolling with a purple flood.
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Time, toil, and circumstance full oft
A humbled cause have raised aloft,
And Fortune whom she mocked before
Has placed on solid ground once more.
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Him through the fire these shoulders bore,
And from the heart of battle tore.
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Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
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Nay, had I a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, and voice of iron, I could not sum up all the forms of crime, or rehearse all the tales of torments.
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I was amazed, my hair stood on end, and my voice stuck in my throat.
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A woman is always a fickle, unstable thing.
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Nor can we struggle or resist;
Come, let us bow to Fortune's sway,
And, as she beckons, shape our way.
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In wild confusion sways the crowd:
Each takes his side and all are loud.
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If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move Hell.
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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
John Betjeman
Virgil
Born:
October 13, 70 BC
Died:
September 19, 19 BC
(aged 51)
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