The Works of Robert Browning
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ISBN13: 9780217138048
Paperback|9780217138048
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PHEIDIPPIDES First I salute this soil of the blessed, river and rock Gods of my birthplace, daemons and heroes, honour to all Then I name thee, claim thee for our patron, co equal in praise ? Ay, with Zeus the Defender, with Her of the aegis and spear Also, ye of the bow and the buskin, praised be your peer, Now, henceforth and forever, ? O latest to whom I upraise Hand and heart and voice For Athens, leave pasture and flock Present to help, potent to save, Pan ? patron I call Archons of Athens, topped by the tettix, see, I return See, 't is myself here standing alive, no spectre that speaks Crowned with the myrtle, did you command me, Athens and you, Run Pheidippides, run and race, reach Sparta for aid Persia has come, we are here, where is She ? Your command I obeyed, Ran and raced: like stubble, some field which a fire runs through, Was the space between city and city: two days, two nights did I burn is Over the hills, under the dales, down pits and up peaks. Into their midst I broke: breath served but for Persia has come Persia bids Athens proffer slaves'-tribute, water and earth; Razed to the ground is Eretria?but Athens, shall Athens sink, Drop into dust and die?the flower of Hellas utterly die, 20 Die, with the wide world spitting at Sparta, the stupid, the stander-by? Answer me quick, what help, what hand do you stretch o'er destruction's brink? How, ?when ? No care for my limbs ?there 's lightning in all and some? Fresh and fit your message to bear, once lips give it birth O my Athens?Sparta love thee ? Did Sparta respond ? 25 Everyfaceof her leered in a furrow of envy, mistrust, Malice, ?each eye of her gave me its glitter of gratified hate Gr...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217138048 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217138047 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 132 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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