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'Why was I not allowed to live without the bridal bed,
Sackless and free as beasts afield, with no woes wearied?

'For unloved lovers, unto that she sendeth up the prayer.'

'God shut the hero's steadfast ears ; fate in the way abode.'

'To eat her heart: the silent wound lives on within her breast.'

'The tears arisen as she spake did all her bosom fill.'

'Meanwhile the Queen, long smitten sore with sting of all desire,
With very heart's blood feeds the wound and wastes with hidden fire.'

'Wide course from cliffs of Ithaca, Laerte's land, we keep,
Cursing the soil that bore and nursed Ulysses' cruelty.'

'Til famine, and this murder's wrong that ye were fain to do,
Drive you your tables gnawed with teeth to eat up utterly.'

'No monster woefuller than they, and crueler is none.'