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  BOOK II   The Book of the Statesman   Now from his cycle sleepless and vast round the dance of the earth-globe Gold Hyperion…

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  BOOK III   The Book of the Assembly   But as the nation beset betwixt doom and a shameful surrender Waited mute for a…

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  Ilion Bk-III   No, when the wrestlers meet and embrace in the mighty arena, Not at their sins and their virtues the high gods…

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  Ilion Bk-IV   Even as here upon earth I knew, in heaven as in Sparta; I on Elysian fields will enjoy thee as now…

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  BOOK V   The Book of Achilles   Meanwhile grey from the Trojan gates Talthybius journeyed Spurred by the secret thought of the Fates…

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  BOOK VI   The Book of the Chieftains   Then as from common hills great Pelion rises to heaven So from the throng uprearing…

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  BOOK VII   The Book of the Woman   So to the voice of their best they were bowed and obeyed undebating; Men whose…

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  BOOK VIII   The Book of the Gods   So on the earth the seed that was sown of the centuries ripened; Europe and…

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  Ilion Bk-VIII   Drawn to the anguish of men and the fierce terrestrial labour. Down he dropped with a roar of light invading the…

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  BOOK IX   Meanwhile moved by their unseen spirits, led by the immortal Phalanxes, who of our hopes and our fears are the reins…

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