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CYCLOPS.

I say 'twas Nobody

Who blinded me.

CHORUS.

Why then, you are not blind!

CYCLOPS.

I wish you were as blind as I am.

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You jeer me; where, I ask, is Nobody?

Nowhere, O Cyclops

CHORUS.

CYCLOPS.

It was that stranger ruined me:-the wretch First gave me wine, and then burnt out my eye, For wine is strong and hard to struggle with. Have they escaped, or are they yet within?

CHORUS.

They stand under the darkness of the rock,
And cling to it.

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CYCLOPS.

Ah! I am mocked! They jeer me in my ills.

CHORUS.

Not there! he is a little there beyond you.

CYCLOPS.

Detested wretch ! where are you?

ULYSSES.

Far from you

I keep with care this body of Ulysses.

CYCLOPS.

What do you say? You proffer a new name.

ULYSSES.

My father named me so; and I have taken
A full revenge for your unnatural feast;

I should have done ill to have burned down Troy,
And not revenged the murder of my comrades.

CYCLOPS.

Ai! ai! the ancient oracle is accomplished;
It said that I should have my eye-sight blinded
By you coming from Troy, yet it foretold
That you should pay the penalty for this
By wandering long over the homeless sea.

ULYSSES.

I bid thee weep-consider what I say,

I go towards the shore to drive my ship
To mine own land, o'er the Sicilian wave.

CYCLOPS.

Not so, if whelming you with this huge stone I can crush you and all your men together: I will descend upon the shore, though blind, Groping my way adown the steep ravine.

CHORUS.

And we, the shipmates of Ulysses now, Will serve our Bacchus all our happy lives.

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EPIGRAMS.

SPIRIT OF PLATO.

FROM THE GREEK.

EAGLE! why soarest thou above that tomb?
To what sublime and star-y-paven home
Floatest thou?

I am the image of swift Plato's spirit,
Ascending heaven-Athens does inherit
His corpse below.

FROM THE GREEK.

A MAN who was about to hang himself,
Finding a purse, then threw away his rope;
The owner coming to reclaim his pelf,
The halter found and used it. So is Hope
Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf,
We take the other. Under heaven's high cope
Fortune is God-all you endure and do
Depends on circumstance as much as you.

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