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Whom will he stab a-sleeping, whom,
The quick grey wolf, the crawling doom?
     Grant that he slay the Spartan! Nay,
Or Agamemnon's head and plume
     To Helen bear at dawn of day!
A lightsome dawn to hear her wail
Her brother sworn, her King who came
     To Ilion with his thousand sail,
     And swords, and flame!

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