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A TOMB BY THE SEA by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS

First Line: I'M DEAD, AND YET MUST THOLE THE SLEEPLESS SURGE
Last Line: ALONE OF GHOSTS I CANNOT LIE AT EASE.
Subject(s): GRAVES; TOMBS; TOMBSTONES;
I'M dead, and yet must thole the sleepless surge.
When billows threw me battered on the sands,
By spouting reefs I found, beside the verge
Of mine old foe, a grave at strangers' hands;
But still among the dead am I distressed
To hear the boom and thunder of the seas:
Not even Hades couches me to rest;
Alone of ghosts I cannot lie at ease.



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