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PINDAR.
He struggles with oppressive fate,
From home and his possessions driven.
Immortal Jove the Titan crew530
Released at length from thraldom due.
The seaman in a flagging gale
Loosens his idly-fluttering sail. 521
But soon, his deadly troubles o'er,
He prays to see his home once more.535
There by Apollo's sacred spring
To youthful revels yield his soul,
And to his skilful townsmen bring
The lyre its varied strains to roll.
With them to lead, remote from strife,540
The quiet tenour of his life.
And then in Thebes recall'd to dwell,
His grateful tongue shall freely tell
What new fount of ambrosial lays [1]
He struck, Arcesilaus, in thy praise. 533545
- ↑ This perhaps alludes to the discovery of the fountain Hippocrene by the horse Pegasus.
