The ashes of his clay. Thus Strophius spake:

And if ye are the friends, whom chiefly grief

Pricks for his loss, my mission’s done; at least

His parents will be grieved to hear ’t.

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Woe’s me!

Sheer down we topple from proud height; harsh fate

Is ours to wrestle with. O jealous Curse,

How dost thou eye us fatal from afar,

And with thy well-trimmed bow shoot chiefly there