Troy has perished, the great city.Only the red flame now lives there.The dust is rising, spreading out like a great wing of smoke and all is hidden.We now are gone, one here, one there.And Troy is gone forever.Farewell, dear city.Farewell, my country, where my children lived.There below, the Greek ships wait.ENJOY MOREThe Ceylon Press publishes a range of podcasts including The History Of Sri Lanka; the off-grid Jungle Diaries podcast; Island Stories, the podcast that explores what makes Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan; the Wild Isle Podcast: Stories from Sri Lanka’s Nature; a range of complete Audio Books about Sri Lanka; as well as Poetry from The Jungle.  All these, along with eBooks, dictionaries, guides and companions can be found at www.theceylonpress.com, based at The Flame Tree Estate & Hotel in the jungle northwest of Kandy: www.flametreeestate.com.  The copyright of this podcast recording is David Swarbrick @The Ceylon Press 2025. POETRY FROM THE JUNGLE GRATEFULLY ACKNOWLEDGES THE COPYRIGHT CREDIT: The Iliad of Homer, translated and with an introduction by Richmond Lattimore, copyright © 1951 by The University of Chicago.

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