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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
Troy trodden by the Argive monster lies-<br />
The foal, the shielded band that leapt the wall,<br />
What time with autumn sank the Pleiades.<br />
Yea, o'er the fencing wall a lion sprang<br />
Ravening, and lapped his fill of blood of kings.<br />
Such prelude spoken to the gods in full,<br />
To you I turn, and to the hidden thing<br />
Whereof ye spake but now: and in that thought<br />
I am as you, and what ye say, say I.<br />
For few are they who have such inborn grace,<br />
As to look up with love, and envy not,<br />
When stands another on the height of weal.<br />
Deep in his heart, whom jealousy hath seized,<br />
Her poison lurking doth enhance his load;<br />
For now beneath his proper woes he chafes,<br />
And sighs withal to see another's weal.<br />
I speak not idly, but from knowledge sure-<br />
There be who vaunt an utter loyalty,<br />
That is but as the ghost of friendship dead,<br />
A shadow in a glass, of faith gone by.<br />
One only-he who went reluctant forth<br />
Across the seas with me-Odysseus-he<br />
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