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Name: Helen of Troy - 20
Author: Andrew Lang

No guard they set, for truly to them all
Did Love and slumber seem exceeding good;
There was no watch by open gate nor wall,
No sentinel by Pallas’ image stood;
But silence grew, as in an autumn wood
When tempests die, and the vex’d boughs have ease,
And wind and sunlight fade, and soft the mood
Of sacred twilight falls upon the trees.

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Chicago: Andrew Lang, "20," Helen of Troy, ed. Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902 and trans. Seaton, R. C. in Helen of Troy (New York: George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892), Original Sources, accessed June 30, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H79NJ23DH8VCYWT.

MLA: Lang, Andrew. "20." Helen of Troy, edited by Sutherland, Alexander, 1853-1902, and translated by Seaton, R. C., in Helen of Troy, New York, George E. Wood, ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Original Sources. 30 Jun. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H79NJ23DH8VCYWT.

Harvard: Lang, A, '20' in Helen of Troy, ed. and trans. . cited in ""Death-bed"" edition, 1892, Helen of Troy, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 30 June 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=H79NJ23DH8VCYWT.