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Rh Of this dear soul the safe-return-price scheming!

For, root existing, foliage goes up houses

Shadow o'erspreading against Seirios dog-star;

And, thou returning to the hearth domestic,

Warmth, yea, in winter dost thou show returning.

And when, too, Zeus works, from the green-grape acrid,

Wine—then, already, cool in houses cometh—

The perfect man his home perambulating!

Zeus, Zeus Perfecter, these my prayers perfect thou!

Thy care be—yea—of things thou may'st make perfect!

Wherefore to me, this fear—

Groundedly stationed here

Fronting my heart, the portent-watcher—flits she?