Potential Titles: Obol

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The silver obol I must drop in the grim ferry-man's hand - Richard Aldington "Hermes-of-the-Dead" [The Little Review, Mar. 1917, v.3, no.9]

Paid his obolus on the Stygian shore - Charles Baudelaire "Don Juan in Hades" transl. not credited

Words imposing on my tongue like obols - Seamus Heaney "Singing School: 5. Fosterage"

A second obol secret beneath my tongue - Ann K. Schwader "Of Ithaca & Ice"

Slips me Charon's obol - Richard Solomon "Dream Caused by the Fight of the Bumblebee"


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