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From there, it was only a few steps to reach the swirling waters of Lethe's pool; water from the river Styx, from geysers deep within the earth, from rainclouds that gather around the highest mountains, from tears shed, all of this water gathers in Lethe's pool and when a soul dives into that warm liquid, it is reborn.
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2007
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He yearned to drink of Lethe's ruby cup, while beetles crawled about his feet, and death-moths fluttered about his head.
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Then father Anchises: Spirits they are, to whom second bodies are owed by Fate, and at the water of Lethe's stream they drink the soothing draught and long forgetfulness.
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Who's for the Lethe's plain? the Donkey-shearings?
The Frogs 2000
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He crossed the river of blood, and the river of weeping; but Lethe's stream he would not drink of, and seven years passed over him like a single day.
The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
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The dwarf, now sunk in Lethe's mud, did snore; knowing the sign, the minstrel then forbore.
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In his decline, even "His father he lost," and "On Lethe's banks," in Artaxerxes; -- hear the singers of the present day sing these songs!
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 Various
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"Thou shouldst be duller than the fat weed that rots itself on Lethe's wharf, wert thou not to stir in this," ejaculated the spirit.
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Who's for the Lethe's plain? the Donkey-shearings?
The Frogs 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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Long afterwards he expressed his hope that Landor's biographers would either let him slip off at Lethe's wharf, or else do him justice in a note.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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