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VARIATIONS OF GREEK THEMES
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XII

AN INSCRIPTION BY THE SEA

(Glaucus)

No dust have I to cover me,
My grave no man may show;
My tomb is this unending sea,
And I lie far below.
My fate, O stranger, was to drown;
And where it was the ship went down
Is what the sea-birds know.