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The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems

Upon the Sepulchre of Midus Cut in Brass, in the Figure of a Virgin

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A maid of brass I am, infixed here T’ eternize honest Midus’ sepulchre; And while the stream her fluent seed receives, And steep trees curl their verdant brows with leaves, While Phœbus rais’d above the earth gives sight, And th’ humorous Moon takes lustre from his light, While floods bear waves, and seas shall wash the shore, At this his sepulchre, whom all deplore, I’ll constantly abide; all passers by Informing, “Here doth honest Midus lie.”

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The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems, Project Gutenberg eBook #48895

In his Return to Cuma Cuma, refusing to eternize their State, Though Brought Thither by the Muses