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Gave the gods praise and song; Knelt, with your soft cheeks glowing, to Apollo, Hung garlarids fair where Venus was enshrined.
Heard dryad- voices from the tree-trunks hollow, Faun-laughters on the wind.
How the proud Csesar came and you departed.
Braving the reaches of the barren foam To follow him, capricious, myriad-hearted.
Unto all-conquering Rome; How by the Tiber, in the sunlight golden.
While round you frowned the Olympians, now disowned, [ 43 ] LIFE AND NATURE You pondered deep o'er ma
...ny a volume olden Of cruel creeds dethroned; How, when encamped on fiery sands Egyptian, You, seeking truth beneath their gods' dark brows.
Were lured to death by some priest-wrought inscrip- tion, Believing in their vows; I seem to see, clear-limned as with a stylus.
The last sad scene, your pitiful despair, — The slow and somber flow of haunted Nilus Drowning your parting prayer.
Thus in the loyal hope of fate forfending From him whose guerdoui was the end of joy.
You brought your life to sacrificial ending, Oh, bhthe Bithynian boy!


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