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Odyssey

Book 21, Line 354 by Samuel Butler (English)

She went wondering back into the house, and laid her son's saying in her heart. Then going upstairs with her handmaids into her room, she mourned her dear husband till Athena sent sweet sleep over her eyelids.

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