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Atalanta in Calydon

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Oeneus

Thou shouldst die as he dies
      For whom none sheddeth tears;
    Filling thine eyes
      And fulfilling thine ears
  With the brilliance of battle, the bloom and the beauty,
          the splendour of spears.

CHORUS.

In the ears of the world
      It is sung, it is told,
    And the light thereof hurled
      And the noise thereof rolled
  From the Acroceraunian snow to the ford
          of the fleece of gold.

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