...between Alexander and the friend who is to him what Patroclus was to Achilles, Alexander confesses, — I sometimes think That I am less a person than a power,...oppression of a void, At times I welcome what I once scarce brooked, The opprobrium of blank sleep. No fantasies of style or mannerisms interfere with the plain...

...before we proceed to examine the dramatic form and development of the poem : — HEPHESTION (speaks). The Indian's faith may soar as high as heaven : His...ends : An ultimate end I find not. For that cause, On reeling in the oppression of a void, At times I welcome what I once scarce brook'd, The opprobrium...

...between Alexander and the friend who is to him what Patroclus was to Achilles, Alexander confesses, — I sometimes think That I am less a person than a power,...oppression of a void, At times I welcome what I once scarce brooked, The opprobrium of blank sleep. No fantasies of style or mannerisms interfere with the plain...

...darkness rolling, Knows this — its work ; but not that work's far scope. Hephestion, what is life P My life, since boyhood, Hath been an agony of means...a void, • At times I welcome what I once scarce brooked, The opprobrium of blank sleep. No fantasies of style or mannerisms interfere with the plain...

...sometimes think That I am less a person than a power, SOCK engine in the right hand of the gods, Scene fateful wheel that, round in darkness rolling, Knows...since boyhood, Hath been an agony of means to ends ; Aa ultimate end 1 find not. For that cause, On reding in the oppression of a void, At times I welcome...