Verse
Iliad
Book 2, Line 135 by Samuel Butler (English)
the timbers of our ships have rotted; their tackling is sound no longer. Our wives and little ones at home look anxiously for our coming, but the work that we came hither to do has not been done. Now, therefore, let us all do as I say:
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