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Rh Kindling with flame a heap of gray old heather.

And, strengthening still, the lamp, decaying nowise,

Springing o'er Plain Asopos,—full-moon-fashion

Effulgent,—toward the crag of Mount Kithairon,

Roused a new rendering-up of fire the escort—

And light, far escort, lacked no recognition

O' the guard—as burning more than burnings told you.

And over Lake Gorgopis light went leaping,

And, at Mount Aigiplanktos safe arriving,

Enforced the law—"to never stint the fire-stuff."

And they send, lighting up with ungrudged vigour,

Of flame a huge beard, ay, the very foreland

So as to strike above, in burning onward,

The look-out which commands the Strait Saronic.

Then did it dart until it reached the outpost