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Baucis & Philemon

Trophy Point, United States Military Academy
West Point, New York

27 July 2010
"They haste, and what their tardy feet denied,
The trusty staff (their better leg) supplied.
An arrow's flight they wanted to the top,
And there secure, but spent with travel, stop;
Then turn their now no more forbidden eyes;
Lost in a lake the floated level lies;
A watery desert covers all the plains;
Their cot alone, as in an isle remains;
Wondering with weeping eyes, while they deplore
Their neighbors' fate, and country now no more,
Their little shed, scarce large enough for two,
Seems, from the ground increased, in height and bulk to grow.

 

 

 

        


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