THOMYRIS

I am the queen of Scythians.

My strength was like no strength of man's,

My face like day, my breast like spring.

My fame was felt in the extreme land

That hath sunshine on the one hand

And on the other star-shining.

Yea, and the wind there fails of breath;

Yea, and there life is waste like death;

Yea, and there death is a glad thing.

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