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 II.

THE WIFE OF HEPHÆSTUS.

He was not fair to look on as a god— Her husband whom God gave her; for his face, Not as the golden face of Phœbus glowed; Nor in his body was there light or grace:

But he was rugged-seeming; all his brows Were changed and smeared with the great human toil; His limbs all gnarled and knotted as the boughs And limbs of mighty oaks are: many a soil