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To: tioga

Cassandra, recalled as the great Trojan sibyl
proclaimed to all people of Troy’s body civil

“the erstwhile gift, so grand and so stately
drug heedless to caution among us just lately

is none but a ruse, containing destruction”
ignoring her warning, prophetic instruction

they ended their vigil, turned glutton, debaucher
gave over their necks to the blade of their slaughter

The Sybil of course— had she managed survival
would find but contempt on the record archival


23 posted on 02/15/2010 7:19:11 AM PST by tsomer
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To: tsomer

A+

yes, she was certainly a sibyl


26 posted on 02/15/2010 7:29:50 AM PST by tioga
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