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Him through the sedges afar the sad-eyed maiden of Minos,

Likest a Bacchant-girl stone-carven, (O her sorrow!)

'Spies, a-tossing the while on sorest billows of love-care.

Now no more on her blood-hued hair fine fillets retains she,

No more now light veil conceals her bosom erst hidden,

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Now no more smooth zone contains her milky-hued paplets:

All gear dropping adown from every part of her person

Thrown, lie fronting her feet to the briny wavelets a sea-toy.