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His life should have ended in India.
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..but that's myth.
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In life, Heracles died of a poisoned shirt
given him in error his jealous wife.
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Making his devotions to the Gods
at the end of the great journey,
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Alexander bade the East farewell and
marched his army directly west,
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Across the Great Gedrosian Desert, seeking
the shortest route home to Bablyon.
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To this day, there is no accounting of how many died.
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It was the worst blunder of his life,
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And when he finally reentered Babylon
after six years in the Far East,
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Alexander again seized the imagination
of the world by taking two more wives.
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Just last night, hewas..
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Its the water, your majesty. He mixed it with the wine.
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But how can this be? Typhus?.. of India?
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Oh I wouldn't tax yourself your majesty,
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..a few good nights rest will do it, but no wine, or...