Of fitful flame,—twin births of our gray brand
That 's sinking fast to ashes! I assert,
As sparkles want but fuel to expand
Into a conflagration no mere squirt
Will quench too quickly, so might Croisic strand,
Had Fortune pleased posterity to chowse,
Boast of her brace or beacons luminous.
CLIV
Did earlier Agamemnons lack their bard?
But later bards lacked Agamemnon too!