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Silenus

By Thomas Woolner

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Casting at length the dust abroad, he sighed,
“There flies my solitary dream of joy.
A dream, a dream!”
Then with a dreadful cry
That pierced the forest depths, and made the rocks
Thrill to their inmost hearts, Silenus fell,
And falling crashed his spear; and helpless lay,
Ashy, as one long dead.