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When they tell you it's only a myth,
don't believe them.

When they say, oh yes, it does exist,
but as a relatively late settlement,
some vulgar Hellenistic town
shallowly buried in rough ground,
an unmade bed under a coverlet,
don't suppose it's all.

Schliemann came to this hill
in order to show that his boyhood
and Homeric Troy had both been real.

His proof of the child was identified
with knife blades of silver, spear tips of bronze
(their shafts had reverted to earth),
with soft gold calmly insisting
on feathery diadems like owls.

Ironically, the hoard was preheroic.

Missing Homer's tough city,
Schliemann found and founded his own.

Death, the tall duchess patiently waiting at Naples,
seemed trivial once he'd seen
that briskly successful businessman
becoming a mere negation, a husk,
concealing a robust boy.



Troy turned out to be many-layered,
a lavish birthday cake.
That level where Schliemann stood face to face
with himself at last......

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