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Still in his dory die old own plies2
IIis oar on the way to his fishing net.
And the lingering light from the- oar-blade flics
A s the bent: old shoulders fall and rise.
And the nsh stave bends jit the sturdy fist
Till his form is dark in the harbor mist.35
Scant are his daily cams; and yet
A wreath of flowers is laid each day7
On the grave of the woman he loved so w ell:
A fid another wreatllf from the selfsame dell,
On the other grave can be daily seen—
The grave of Lhc lover who came between,
Of the man beloved by the silent dead,
Who lies by her side in the sunset red !
JoH M Pjil^TON T k UT?.

THE DESTRUCTION OF TROV.

^TAHE leaders of the Greeks, worn with war and baffled by fate,
J built, with the aid of the divine skill of Pallas, a horse as huge
as a mountain, and formed the sides of interlacing flanks of hr,
!.n it they secretly enclose the picked warriors they have chosen, and
JiiI sul! the vast caverns with armed soldiers,
In sight lies Tenedos, an ishmd well known to fame, rich and
powerful, lnther they proceed and conceal themselves 0:1 the desolate
shore, We supposed they had all gone away; therefore all the land
of Troy freed itself from its long sorrow. The gates were opened.
With joy wo issue forth and view' the Doric camp, and the deserted
stations, and the forsaken coast, Some view with amazement the
mtusual offering to the maiden Minerva, and wonder at the stupendous
bulk of the horse. Thymoetcs is the first to urge that it be dragged
within the walls and placed in the citadel. But Capys cmd others,
whose minds had wiser sentiments, advise cither to throw the thing
into the sea, to put fire under it and burn it, or to pierce it and explore,
the inner recesses of the body.