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Constantine P. Cavafy - The Horses of Achilles

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When they saw Patroklos dead <br />—so brave and strong, so young— <br />the horses of Achilles began to weep; <br />their immortal nature was upset deeply <br />by this work of death they had to look at. <br />They reared their heads, tossed their long manes, <br />beat the ground with their hooves, and mourned <br />Patroklos, seeing him lifeless, destroyed, <br />now mere flesh only, his spirit gone, <br />defenseless, without breath, <br />turned back from life to the great Nothingness. <br /> <br />Zeus saw the tears of those immortal horses and felt sorry. <br />"At the wedding of Peleus," he said, <br />"I should not have acted so thoughtlessly. <br />Better if we hadn't given you as a gift, <br />my unhappy horses. What business did you have down there, <br />among pathetic human beings, the toys of fate. <br />You are free of death, you will not get old, <br />yet ephemeral disasters torment you. <br />Men have caught you up in their misery." <br />But it was for the eternal disaster of death <br />that those two gallant horses shed their tears.<br /><br />Constantine P. Cavafy<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-horses-of-achilles-2/

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