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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
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For Kaunos' sake, why, carry them unhurtTo Kaunos, if you will: for Athens' sake,Back must you, though ten pirates blocked the bay!We want no colony from Athens here,With memories of Salamis, forsooth,To spirit up our captives, that pale crowdI' the quarry, whom the daily pint of cornKeeps in good order and submissiveness."Then the grey Captain prayed them by the Gods,And by their own knees, and their fathers' beards,They should not wickedly thrust suppliants back,But save the innocent on traffic bound—Or, may be, some Athenian familyPerishing of desire to die at home,—From that vile foe still lying on its oars,Waiting the issue in the distance. Vain!Words to the wind! And we were just aboutTo turn and face the foe, as some tired bird
