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Title: Boys' heroes
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Subjects: Heroes Biography
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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imable to thy tent. Revrence the gods, Achilles! recollect Thy father; for his sake compassion show To me more pitiable still, who draw Home to my lips (humiliation yet Unseen on earth,) his hand who slew my son! How sweetly Helen mourned him. Of all theheroes he was the one who had been good to her. HECTOR. 25 Oh Hector! thou wert rooted in my heart;No brother there had half so large a part.Not less than twenty years are now passed oer,Since first I landed on the Trojan shore,Since Paris lured me from my home away.( Would I had died before that fatal day!)i^t it was neer my fate from thee to findA deed ungentle, or a word unkind.When others cursed the authoress of their woe,Thy pity checked my sorrows in their flow:If by my sisters or the queen reviled,(For the good king, like thee, was ever mild)Thy kindness still has all my grief beguild.For thee I mourn, and mourn myself in thee,Nor hope, nor solace now remains to me;Sad Helen has no friend, now thou art gone. II. HORATIUS COCLES.
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HORATIUS COCLESwas a great favoriteamong the Roman peoplefrom a very early time. Thestories about him variedmore or less, as may wellhappen when stories aretold from father to son gen-erations before they are written down. But, in one26 HORATIUS COCLES. 27 form or another, every historian of early Rometells the tale. The historian Niebuhr suggested that the storieswe have of early Roman history must have been,at one time or another, transmitted in the form ofballads. And, with a great deal of ingenuity, anda great deal of spirit, Mr. Macaulay reproducedsome of these supposed ballads from the history.These he called Lays of Ancient Rome, and theyhave awakened, for this generation, an interestwholly new in the stories. Mr. Macaulay himself,indeed, is more likely to be remembered, two hun-dred years hence, on their account, than for any-thing else which he has written. So is it that almost every schoolboy who will readthis article, has read, and perhaps has told fromthe platform on Decla

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