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HECUBA: A CHORUS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft, southern gale, whose whisp'ring breath
Last Line: Shall bind in curst, disgraceful chains!
Subject(s): Grief; Homecoming; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips


I.
SOFT, southern Gale, whose whisp'ring Breath
Skims lightly o'er the curling Wave,
O whither, in this hapless Bark,
Wilt thou convey a weeping Slave?

II.
To Doria's wood-invested Land,
Or Phthia's Pastures shall I go,
Where Father of Field-fat'ning Floods
Apidanus shall hear my Woe?

III.
Or sent to Athens, shall I weave
In Tissue Robes the Queen of War;
Her polish'd Helm, and Gorgon-shield,
Her foaming Steeds, and glitt'ring Car?

IV.
Or haply in the Piece shall stand
The Titan's Heav'n-defying Crew,
Whom Jove, his Prowess to display,
With angry livid Lightnings slew.

V.
O my lost Children, Parents, Friends!
O Ilion smoking on the Plains!
O my poor Self, whom foreign Hands
Shall bind in curst, disgraceful Chains!





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