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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
There slept a silent palace in the sun,With plains adjacent and Thessalian peace—Pherai, where King Admetos ruled the land.
Out from the portico there gleamed a God,Apollon: for the bow was in his hand,The quiver at his shoulder, all his shapeOne dreadful beauty. And he hailed the house,As if he knew it well and loved it much:"O Admeteian domes, where I endured,Even the God I am, to drudge awhile,Accepting the slave's table thankfully.Do righteous penance for a reckless deed!"Then told how Zeus had been the cause of all,Raising the wrath in him which took revenge
