| We sailed on, though sick at heart
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| Heavy rowing broke the slaves
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| On the sixth day, the sun didn’t rise
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| As we headed from the east
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| Then we came upon land of th Laistrygones
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| Horrendous legendary fiends
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| These residents, an old children’s myth
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| The flesh of human men they eat
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| Bloodbath
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| Skin reapers
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| Slaughter
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| Meat gatherers
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| Cannibal
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| Massacre!!!
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| The harbors ingress, a narrow precipice
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| All the boats steer themselves in
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| I tied my ship to a rock beyond
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| The entrance to this bordered niche
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| Three scouts we’re sent, on reconnaissance
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| What abides beyond these cliffs?
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| At Artakia’s stream, they met a giant dame
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| The daughter of King Antiphates
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| The towering palace a lofty keep
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| The gruesome queen stands fifty feet
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| She called her king to greet his guests
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| Ripped one in two and ate the rest
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| The terrifying king cried out!
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| Arise! |
| Barbaric Laystrigones!
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| Our meat has come to us. |
| Tonight we gnaw on humans
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| Swarms of them came, lawless giant guild
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| Hurling rocks from the cliffs
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| A violent roar, from the din of streams
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| Amid my fleet as men we’re killed
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| Spearing men like fish, to my astonishment
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| Stacking bodies on a stick
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| We sailed on, though sick at heart
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| Barely thwarting perishment
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| Bloodbath
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| Skin reapers
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| Slaughter
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| Meat gatherers
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| Cannibal
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| Massacre!!! |