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ground people as though he were a god.

, and the shades of death, with fate


that no man can withstand, came over his eyes. Thus furiously did the battle
rage between them. As for the son of Tydeus, you could not say whether he was
more among the Achaeans

winter torrent that has burst its barrier in full flood; no dykes, no walls of fruitful
vineyards can embank it when it is swollen with rain from heaven, but in a
moment it comes tearing onward, and lays many a field waste that many a
strong man hand has reclaimed- even so were the dense phalanxes of the
Trojans driven in rout by the son of Tydeus Eurypylus gave him chase as he was
flying before him, smote him with his sword upon the arm, and lopped his strong
hand from off it. The bloody hand fell to the or the Trojans. He rushed across the
plain like a
lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now.

Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler,
schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker,
preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives. Young girls lie bedded soft or
Haste you can hear the boys are dreaming and the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing.

We The cats carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

paused on the one cloud of the roofs before a house that seemed
A swelling of the ground; The roof was scarcely visible, The cornice but a mound

, and many though they were, they dared not abide his onslaught.

To begin at the beginning: The boys are dreaming wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night

organplaying wood. wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night and the jollyrogered sea. And the
anthracite statues of the horses sleep in the fields, and the cows in the byres, and the dogs in the
wet-nosed yards; and the nap in the slant corners or lope sly, streaking and needling,.

Because I could not stop for Death,


He kindly stopped for me;
We slowly drove, he knew no,
And I had put away
My labor, and my leisure too,
For his civility.

Since then 't is centuries; but each


Feels shorter than the day
I first surmised the horses' heads
Were toward eternity.
It is Spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and
the hunched, courters'-and- rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black,
crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine to-night in
the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the
town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the

glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glow-worms down the aisles of the
organplaying wood. The boys are dreaming wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night and the
jollyrogered sea. And the anthracite statues of the horses sleep in the fields, and the cows in the
byres, and the dogs in the wet-nosed yards; and the cats nap in the slant corners or lope sly,
streaking and needling, on the one cloud of the roofs.

Eurypylus, son of Euaemon, killed Hypsenor, the son of noble Dolopion, who
had been made priest of the river Scamander, and was honoured among the

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