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First Line: I'm sure I see it all now as it was
Last Line: "and this one I bring with me to the dead."
Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


I'M sure I see it all now as it was,
When first you set your foot upon the shore
Where dim Cocytus flows for evermore,
And how it came to pass
That all those Dorian women who are there
In Hades, and still fair,
Came up to you, so young, and wept and smiled
When they beheld you and your little child.
And then, I'm sure, with tears upon your face
To be in that sad place,
You told of the two children you had borne,
And then of Euphron, whom you leave to mourn.
"One stays with him," you said.
"And this one I bring with me to the dead."





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