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8 Cards in this Set
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Then learn this, too, the power of my oaths
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By the child's rights I brought to birth,
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by Ruin, by Fury, -- the three gods to whom
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I sacrificed this man -- I swear my hopes will never walk the halls of fear so long
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as Aegisthus lights the fire on my hearth,
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Loyal to me as always, no small shield to buttress my defiance.
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Here he lies. He brutalized me. The darling of all
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the golden girls who spread the gates of Troy.
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And here is his Spear-prize... what wonders she beheld!---
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the seer of Apollo who shared my husband's bed, his faithful mare who knelt at the rowing-benches, worked by every hand.
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The have their rewards.
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He as you know, and She, the swan of the gods,
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who lived to sing her latest, dying song--
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his lover lies beside him.
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She brings a fresh, voluptuous relish
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to my bed!
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