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“Till they perish and they suffer—some, ‘tis whisper’d—down in hell Suffer endless anguish, others in Elysian valleys dwell, Resting weary limbs at last on beds of asphodel. Surely, surely, slumber is more sweet than toil, the shore Than labour in the deep mid-ocean, wind and wave and oar; O, rest ye, brother mariners, we will not wander more.”
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Word Count : 406
The given lines are from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's *The Lotos-Eaters*, one of the finest dramatic lyrics of the Victorian age. The poem is based on an episode from Homer's *Odyssey*, where Odysseus and his companions reach the land of the Lotus-Eaters. After tasting the lotus fruit, the sailors lose all desire for action and wish only to remain in a state of peaceful forgetfulness. The quoted passage forms the closing part of the Choric Song, expressing the mariners' final rejection of ______ _______ __________ ____ ______ _______ ____ _________ ___ ______ _________.
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The given lines are from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's *The Lotos-Eaters*, one of the finest dramatic lyrics of the Victorian age. The poem is based on an episode from Homer's *Odyssey*, where Odysseus and his companions reach the land of the Lotus-Eaters. After tasting the lotus fruit, the sailors lose all desire for action and wish only to remain in a state of peaceful forgetfulness. The quoted passage forms the closing part of the Choric Song, expressing the mariners' final rejection of ______ _______ __________ ____ ______ _______ ____ _________ ___ ______ _________.
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