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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1216, 23 January 1886, Page 2 (Supplement)

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The incident is from the " Love Stories of Parthenius," who preserved fragments of a lost epic on the expedition of Achilles against Lesbos, an island allied with Troy. The daughter of the Lesbian king. Within her bovvor she watched the war, Fai % off she noard the arrowß ring, The smitten harness ring afar ; And, fighting from the foremost car, Saw one that smote where all must flea ; More fair than the Immortals are He seemed to fair Pisidice She saw, she loved him, and her heart. Before Achilles, Peleus' son, Threw all its guarded pates apart, A maiden fortreps liphtly won i And,'ere that; day of fight was done, No more of land or faith recked she, But joyed in her new life began — Her life of love, PisidlcG I She took a gift into her hand, As one that had a boon to crave ; She stole across the ruined land Where lay the dead without a grave, And to Achilles' hand she gave Her gift, the secret postern's key. " To morrow let me be thy slave 1" Moaned to her love Pisidice". Ere dawn the Argives' clarion call Ranjj down Methymna's burning street ; They slew the sleeping warriors all, They drove the women to the fleet, Save one, that to Achilles' feet Clung, but, in sudden wrath, cried he ; " For her no doom but death is meet." And there men stoned Pisidice". In havens of that hannted coast, Amid the myrtles of the shore, The moon sees many a maiden ghostLove's outcast new and- evermore. The silence hears the shades deplore Their hour of dear-bought love ; bnt the« The waves lull, 'neath thine ollTes hoar, To dreamless rest. Pisidice".