“Chorus of the Eumenides: …
With useless endeavour
Forever, forever,
Is Sisyphus rolling
His stone up the mountain!”

—  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875)

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American poet 1807–1882

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