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cloud;

Up off the plain; raised up cloud…thick by the thundering horse…

hooves)

Hewed with the sword's sharp edge; and so meanwhile Lord Agamemnon

Followed; chasing and slaughtering aye; on…urgeing the Argives。



Now; as when fire voracious catches the unclipped wood…land;

This way bears it and that the great whirl of the wind; and the

scrubwood

Stretches uptorn; flung forward alength by the fire's fury rageing;

So beneath Atreides Agamemnon heads of the scattered

Trojans fell; and in numbers amany the horses; neck…stiffened;

Rattled their vacant cars down the roadway gaps of the war…field;

Missing the blameless charioteers; but; for these; they were

outstretched

Flat upon earth; far dearer to vultures than to their home…mates。







Poem: Paris And Diomedes







'Iliad; B。 XI V。 378'



So he; with a clear shout of laughter;

Forth of his ambush leapt; and he vaunted him; uttering thiswise:

〃Hit thou art! not in vain flew the shaft; how by rights it had

pierced thee

Into the undermost gut; therewith to have rived thee of life…

breath!

Following that had the Trojans plucked a new breath from their

direst;

They all frighted of thee; as the goats bleat in flight from a

lion。〃

Then unto him untroubled made answer stout Diomedes:

〃Bow…puller; jiber; thy bow for thy glorying; spyer at virgins!

If that thou dared'st face me here out in the open with weapons;

Nothing then would avail thee thy bow and thy thick shot of arrows。

Now thou plumest thee vainly because of a graze of my footsole;

Reck I as were that stroke from a woman or some pettish infant。

Aye flies blunted the dart of the man that's emasculate;

noughtworth!

Otherwise hits; forth flying from me; and but strikes it the

slightest;

My keen shaft; and it numbers a man of the dead fallen straightway。

Torn; troth; then are the cheeks of the wife of that man fallen

slaughtered;

Orphans his babes; full surely he reddens the earth with his blood…

drops;

Rotting; round him the birds; more numerous they than the women。〃







Poem: Hypnos On Ida







'Iliad; B。 XIV。 V。 283'



They then to fountain…abundant Ida; mother of wild beasts;

Came; and they first left ocean to fare over mainland at Lektos;

Where underneath of their feet waved loftiest growths of the

woodland。

There hung Hypnos fast; ere the vision of Zeus was observant;

Mounted upon a tall pine…tree; tallest of pines that on Ida

Lustily spring off soil for the shoot up aloft into aether。

There did he sit well…cloaked by the wide…branched pine for

concealment;

That loud bird; in his form like; that perched high up in the

mountains;

Chalkis is named by the Gods; but of mortals known as Kymindis。







Poem: Clash In Arms Of The Achaians And Trojans







'Iliad; B。 XIV。  V。 394'



Not the sea…wave so bellows abroad when it bursts upon shingle;

Whipped from the sea's deeps up by the terrible blast of the

Northwind;

Nay; nor is ever the roar of the fierce fire's rush so arousing;

Down along mountain…glades; when it surges to kindle a woodland;

Nay; nor so tonant thunders the stress of the gale in the oak…

trees'

Foliage…tresses high; when it rages to raveing its utmost;

As rose then stupendous the Trojan's cry and Achaians';

Dread upshouting as one when together they clashed in the conflict。







Poem: The Horses Of Achilles







'Iliad; B。 XVII。 V。 426'



So now the horses of Aiakides; off wide of the war…ground;

Wept; since first they were ware of their charioteer overthrown

there;

Cast down low in the whirl of the dust under man…slaying Hector。

Sooth; meanwhile; then did Automedon; brave son of Diores;

Oft; on the one hand; urge them with flicks of the swift whip; and

oft; too;

Coax entreatingly; hurriedly; whiles did he angrily threaten。

Vainly; for these would not to the ships; to the Hellespont

spacious;

Backward turn; nor be whipped to the battle among the Achaians。

Nay; as a pillar remains immovable; fixed on the tombstone;

Haply; of some dead man or it may be a woman there…under;

Even like hard stood they there attached to the glorious war…car;

Earthward bowed with their heads; and of them so lamenting

incessant

Ran the hot teardrops downward on to the earth from their eyelids;

Mourning their charioteer; all their lustrous manes dusty…clotted;

Right side and left of the yoke…ring tossed; to the breadth of the

yoke…bow。

Now when the issue of Kronos beheld that sorrow; his head shook

Pitying them for their grief; these words then he spake in his

bosom;

〃Why; ye hapless; gave we to Peleus you; to a mortal

Master; ye that are ageless both; ye both of you deathless!

Was it that ye among men most wretched should come to have heart…

grief?

'Tis most true; than the race of these men is there wretcheder

nowhere

Aught over earth's range found that is gifted with breath and has

movement。〃







Poem: The Mares Of The Camargue







'From the MIREIO of Mistral'



A hundred mares; all white! their manes

Like mace…reed of the marshy plains

Thick…tufted; wavy; free o' the shears:

And when the fiery squadron rears

Bursting at speed; each mane appears

Even as the white scarf of a fay

Floating upon their necks along the heavens away。



O race of humankind; take shame!

For never yet a hand could tame;

Nor bitter spur that rips the flanks subdue

The mares of the Camargue。  I have known;

By treason snared; some captives shown;

Expatriate from their native Rhone;

Led off; their saline pastures far from view:



And on a day; with prompt rebound;

They have flung their riders to the ground;

And at a single gallop; scouring free;

Wide…nostril'd to the wind; twice ten

Of long marsh…leagues devour'd; and then;

Back to the Vacares again;

After ten years of slavery just to breathe salt sea



For of this savage race unbent;

The ocean is the element。

Of old escaped from Neptune's car; full sure;

Still with the white foam fleck'd are they;

And when the sea puffs black from grey;

And ships part cables; loudly neigh

The stallions of Camargue; all joyful in the roar;



And keen as a whip they lash and crack

Their tails that drag the dust; and back

Scratch up the earth; and feel; entering their flesh; where he;

The God; drives deep his trident teeth;

Who in one horror; above; beneath;

Bids storm and watery deluge seethe;

And shatters to their depths the abysses of the sea。



Cant。 iv。











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