I

by Edgar Allan Poe · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of Hymn to Aristogeiton and Harmodius

Wreathed in myrtle, my sword I'll conceal

Like those champions devoted and brave,

When they plunged in the tyrant their steel,

And to Athens deliverance gave.

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