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I'll read a poem about
the Greek myth of Actaeon.

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There are very few
figures in Greek mythology

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that had more violence done
to them for a simple mistake.

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Actaeon was a hunter,
and he was taking a break

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from hunting deer with
his hounds, and he was hot

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and it was midday and he
went looking for some water,

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and he found a pool.

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Unfortunately, he also disturbed
the goddess Diana or Artemis

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bathing naked in that pool.

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And she was so outraged
to have been discovered

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this way by a mortal that she
punished him for this mistake.

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And the punishment
was to turn him

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into a stag to be pursued by
his own dogs and torn apart.

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So in this very short poem
which poses as a translation,

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I imagine the dead Actaeon
addressing his mother.

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"The Ghost of Actaeon."

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You are sleeping mother
and do not know my fate.

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I wish you could wake and
embrace me much changed

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as I am with the horns and
the hair of a stag, and only

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the eyes and voice
the same as Actaeon

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My dogs did what I trained
them to do; forgive them.

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If you see my lost bow, break
it; bury it with my bones.

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I know you found no sign of them
in the woods, but look again;

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look for a freckled
coat and not a tunic.

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Branched antlers
not smooth temples,

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and longer legs than
you remember that end

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not in feet, but in hooves.

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