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Forgive me, my love I could only stand-horror struck I watched, yet I didn’t, the crocodiles of the raging Nile maul your ****** corpse My love, my love forgive me That wretched day; that cursed hour, the very hour of our return To see you breathe your last was akin to feeling a knife in my back They had to hold me down The hated guards who couldn’t save you Forgive me, please, forgive me I can do nothing more than carve your face into cold marble now Antinous forgive me, forgive me please I couldn’t save you; no one could Antinous, forgive me
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Oct 1, 2014
Oct 1, 2014 at 10:13 PM UTC
Hadrian on Antinous' Death
Forgive me, my love I could only stand-horror struck I watched, yet I didn’t, the crocodiles of the raging Nile maul your ****** corpse My love, my love forgive me That wretched day; that cursed hour, the very hour of our return To see you breathe your last was akin to feeling a knife in my back They had to hold me down The hated guards who couldn’t save you Forgive me, please, forgive me I can do nothing more than carve your face into cold marble now Antinous forgive me, forgive me please I couldn’t save you; no one could Antinous, forgive me
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Oct 1, 2014
Oct 1, 2014 at 10:13 PM UTC
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