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THE THREE GRAY SISTERS.

And Aphrodite exulted loud,

When she saw the wrecks Apollo left, -

The daughters of Phorkos quite bereft

O' the wondrous beauty of which they been so proud;

Haggard, white-haired, forced to make shift

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With but one eye, with but one tooth!

The sisters long sat by the shore,

Wrinkled old women, forlorn and sad;

Only each other to make them glad

They mourned aloud together when waves would roar,

Wept for the beauty which once they had, -

The Graiai, - those white-haired women gray.

Long years they sat on the sandy shore,

Growing more wretched, their joy all fled,

Till finally they were visited

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