Verse

Iliad

Book 24, Line 549 by Samuel Butler (English)

Bear up against it, and let there be some intervals in your sorrow. Mourn as you may for your brave son, you will take nothing by it. You cannot raise him from the dead, ere you do so yet another sorrow shall befall you."

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Reflect on this line

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