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ULYSSES by GODFREY ELTON

First Line: NOT YET IS ALL MY PASSION DEAD
Last Line: THE OLD PAIN AND THE OLD SURMISE.
Subject(s): MYTHOLOGY - CLASSICAL; OXFORD UNIVERSITY; ULYSSES; ODYSSEUS;

NOT yet is all my passion dead,
Not all that old, unsparing fire,
An old song singing in my head
Can waken all the old desire,

And ah! the wild light on the sea
The promise of these dreaming skies,
Something in these can stir in me
The old pain and the old surmise.



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