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START: I doubt if I have any hope
Of hauling thee logs up the slope.
My legs they are wonky,
I haven’t a donkey,
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END: Our Lady of Victory, be with us now, and may we set up a trophy to thee when we have conquered the audacious attempt of the women to occupy thy holy Acropolis.
Aristophanes; Alan H. Sommerstein,_ Lysistrata/The Acharnians/The Clouds_, Penguin Classics, 1973, pp.191-192.
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