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7.

"So till the sun bestrode the sky at high noon
the weapons hurtled side-to-side and men kept falling." The Iliad, Homer, Book Sixteenth, "Patroclus Fights and Dies", Translated by Robert Fagles, Lines 903-904, New York: Penguin, 1990. "Already they were approaching those farthest acres,
Those final fields where only the great war-heroes
Had their preserves. Here Tydeus ran to meet him," The Aeneid, Vergil, Book VI, Translated by Patric Dickinson, Page 133, New York: Mentor, 1961.
"Death ready stands to interpose his dart,
Fearless to be o'ermatcht by living might." Paradise Lost, Book II, Milton, Lines 854-855.
"But O! More horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse,
And yet I could not die." The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part The Fourth, Coleridge, Lines 251-254.
"These were his words. And when a god had urged
the singer, he began. To start his chant" The Odyssey, Homer, Book VIII, Translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Page 163, New York: Bantam Books, 1990.
"And never yet, since high in Paradise
O'er the four rivers the first roses blew,
Came purer pleasure unto mortal kind" Idylls of the King, "Geraint and Enid", Tennyson, Lines 762-764.
"Likewise that the forms of all things are derived from their Genius, which by the Ancients was call'd an Angel & Spirit & Demon." All Religions Are One, Principle 1st, Blake.

8.

"I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend," Paradise Lost, Book III, Milton, Lines 18-20.
"For the waves of death
encompassed me,
the torrents of perdition assailed
me;" 2 Samuel 22:5, The New Oxford Annotated Bible, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
"But thou, my babe! shalt wander like a breeze
By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags
Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds," "Frost at Midnight", Coleridge, Lines 55-57.
"Drive your cart and plow over the bones of the dead.
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Proverbs of Hell, Blake.
"The old man was terrified. He obeyed the order,
turning, trailing away in silence down the shore
where the roaring battle lines of breakers crash and drag." The Iliad, Homer, Book One, "The Rage of
Achilles", Translated by Robert Fagles, Lines 38-40, New York: Penguin, 1990.
"But when the wanderer had come in close
to shore, he heard the surge; against the shoals
it hammered hard; the wailing combers rolled" The Odyssey, Homer, Book V, Translated by Allen Mandelbaum, Page 108, New York: Bantam Books, 1990.
"And the good south wind still blew behind,
But no sweet bird did follow," The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part The Second, Coleridge, Lines 87-88.
"But in his sleep he dreamed of food, his jaws
Closing on nothing, and he ground his teeth
On nothing, and his throat kept swallowing nothing," Metamporphosis, Ovid, Book VIII, Translated by Rolfe Humphries, Page 207, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.
"There is a vast grove by the cool stream of Caere
For generations widely held in awe;
On all sides it is enclosed by a coil of hills
Which guard the dark pine-glade. The old Pelasgians" The Aeneid, Vergil, Book VII, Translated by Patric Dickinson, Page 187, New York: Mentor, 1961.
"'And I rode on and found a mighty hill,
And on the top, a city wall'd; the spires
Prick'd with incredible pinnacles into heaven." Idylls of the King, "The Holy Grail", Tennyson, Lines 421-423.

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