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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
But only this year reached our Isle o' the Rose.I saw it at Kameiros; played the same,They say, as for the right Lenean feastIn Athens; and beside the perfect piece—Its beauty and the way it makes you weep,—There is much honour done your own loved GodHerakles, whom you house i' the city hereNobly, the Temple wide Greece talks about!I come a suppliant to your Herakles!Take me and put me on his temple-steps.To tell you his achievement as I may,And, that told, he shall bid you set us free!"
Then, because Greeks are Greeks, and hearts are hearts,And poetry is power,—they all outbrokeIn a great joyous laughter with much love:"Thank Herakles for the good holiday!Make for the harbour! Row, and let voice ring.
