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RUINS OF CORINTH by ANTIPATER OF SIDON

First Line: WHERE ARE THY SPLENDORS, DORIAN CORINTH? WHERE
Last Line: ALONE ARE SPARED TO CHANT THE HALCYON'S DIRGE.
Subject(s): CORINTH, GREECE; RUINS;

WHERE are thy splendors, Dorian Corinth? Where
Thy crested turrets, thy ancestral goods,
The temple of the blest, the dwellings of the fair,
The high-born dames, the myriad multitudes?
There's not a trace of thee, sad doomed one, left;
By ravening war at once of all bereft.
We, the sad nereids, offspring of the surge,
Alone are spared to chant the halcyon's dirge.



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