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Monday, September 28, 2009

The Aeneid - pg. 171

"Cocytus is the deep pool that you see,
The swamp of Styx beyond, the infernal power
By which the gods take oath and fear to break it.
All in the nearby crowd you notice here
Are pauper souls, the souls of the unburied.
Charon's the boatman. Those the water bears
Are souls of buried men. He may not take them
Shore to dread shore on the hoarse currents there
Until their bones rest in the grave, or till
They flutter and roam this side a hundred years;
They mar have passage then, and may return
To cross the deeps they long for."

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