Helen, technically a Spartan
later claimed she had no part in
taken, by the brutal Paris
stolen, right from her own terrace
Menelaus, quick to anger
felt a kind of sluggish languor
for you see, he loved his Helen
let her off: some tepid yellin'
From then on, though, if you'll pardon
Sparta grows a lot more Spartan
and the riches that they plundered --
naught compared to the three hundred
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