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- WHEN HELEN LIVED
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- WE have cried in our despair
- That men desert,
- For some trivial affair
- Or noisy, insolent sport,
- Beauty that we have won
- From bitterest hours;
- Yet we, had we walked within
- Those topless towers
- Where Helen waked with her boy,
- Had given but as the rest
- Of the men and women of Troy,
- A word and a jest.
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