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Atalanta in Calydon

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Meleager

For the dead man no home is;
      Ah, better to be
    What the flower of the foam is
      In fields of the sea,
  That the sea-waves might be as my raiment,
          the gulf-stream a garment for me.

CHORUS.

Who shall seek thee and bring
      And restore thee thy day,
    When the dove dipt her wing
      And the oars won their way
  Where the narrowing Symplegades whitened the straits
          of Propontis with spray?

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