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Monday, May 24, 2010

Helen - V:40

Leaving his mountain mangers, Paris came
to Sparta, where he thought that he could claim
his prize -- my bed. But Hera, whose defeat
enraged her, had contrived a trick to cheat
the prince, bestowing on him in my place
a breathing phantom shaped from nothingness.
Paris was sure he was embracing me;
it was an empty image, sheerest vanity.

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