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THE SIBYL'S TOMB.
FROM THE GREEK.
Και οι το μνημα εν τω αλσει του Σμινθεως εστι, και ελεγειον επι στηλης.—
“Αδ' εγω α Φοιβοιο σαφηγορις.”
Pausanias—“Phocic.”
“Αδ' εγω α Φοιβοιο σαφηγορις.”
Pausanias—“Phocic.”
I was the Sibyl!—In this marble cell
Sleep the pale lips that breathed the oracle.
Death's sceptre stoop'd upon my virgin brow;
Then voice and beauty fled! All's silent now.
Yet still with Hermes and the Nymphs I rove,
Elysian spirit!—I was Phœbus' love.
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