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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A HOUND, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poet's Biography
First Line: Although beneath this grave-mound thy white bones now are lying
Last Line: And the looming peak of ossa, and cithaeron's lonely hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Graves; Hunting; Tombs; Tombstones; Hunters
First Line: Although beneath this grave-mound thy white bones now are lying
Last Line: And the looming peak of ossa, and cithaeron's lonely hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos
Subject(s): Graves; Hunting; Tombs; Tombstones; Hunters
ALTHOUGH beneath this grave-mound thy white bones now are lying,
Surely, my huntress Lycas, the wild things dread thee still.
The memory of thy worth tall Pelion keeps undying,
And the looming peak of Ossa, and Cithaeron's lonely hill.
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