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'Tis eight o'clock, a clear March night,
The moon is up, the sky is blue,
The owlet, in the moonlight air,
Shouts from nobody knows where;
He lengthens out his lonely shout,...

If but one spark of honest zeal
Flashes to life within his breast -
A feeble, flick'ring spark at best;
If for a moment he doth feel
A dim desire to throw aside
The bonds that idleness has wrought,...

The sun's red pulses beat,
Full prodigal of heat,
Full lavish of its lustre unrepressed;
But we have drifted far
From where his kisses are,
And in this landward-lying shade we let our paddles rest....

The valley rings with mirth and joy;
Among the hills the echoes play
A never never ending song,
To welcome in the May.
The magpie chatters with delight;
The mountain raven's youngling brood...

This is the valley where we sojourn now,
Cut up by narrow brooks and rich and green
And shaded sweetly by the waving bough
About the trench where floats the soft serene
Arun with waters running low and low...

The teasel and the horsemint spread
The hillside as with sunset, sown
With blossoms, o'er the Standing-Stone
That ripples in its rocky bed:
There are no treasuries that hold...

The teasel and the horsemint spread
The hillside as with sunset, sown
With blossoms, o'er the Standing-Stone
That ripples in its rocky bed:
There are no treasuries that hold...

No, I won't, thar, now, so! And it ain't nothin', no!
And thar's nary to tell that you folks yer don't know;
And it's 'Belle, tell us, do!' and it's 'Belle, is it true?'...

Tear forever the garland of Homer, and number the fathers
Of the immortal work, that through all time will survive!
Yet it has but one mother, and bears that mother's own feature,...

He said, and pass'd with sad presaging heart
To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part;
At home he sought her, but he sought in vain:
She, with one maid of all her menial train,...

Argument Of The First Book.

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Argument Of The Second Book.

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Argument Of The Third Book.

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Argument Of The Fourth Book.

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Argument Of The Ninth Book.

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Argument Of The Fifth Book.


Diomede is extraordinarily distinguished. He kills Pandarus, who had violated the truce, and wounds first Venus and then Mars.



Then Athen'an Pallas on the son...

ARGUMENT OF THE SIXTH BOOK.

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Argument Of The Seventh Book.


Ajax and Hector engage in single combat. The Grecians fortify their camp.



So saying, illustrious Hector through the gates...

Argument Of The Eighth Book.

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Argument Of The Tenth Book.


Diomede and Ulysses enter the Trojan host by night, and slay Rhesus.



All night the leaders of the host of Greece...