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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed.  Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Greece and Turkey in Europe: Vol. XIX.  1876–79.
 
Introductory to Greece
Homer
Anonymous
 
CAN all the wreaths that crown his head
Compensate now to Homer dead
The living Homer’s want of bread?
Yet who would not a beggar be
To be as much renowned as he?        5
I would in sooth ’t were offered me.
 
 
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