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28 As these, I care for riches, to make gifts

To friends, or lead a sick man back to health

With ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealth

For daily gladness; once a man be done

With hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

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O for the ships of Troy, the beat

Of oars that shimmered

Innumerable, and dancing feet

Of Nereids glimmered;

And dolphins, drunken with the lyre,

Across the dark blue prows, like fire,

Did bound and quiver,

To cleave the way for Thetis' son,

Fleet-in-the-wind Achilles, on

To war, to war, till Troy be won

Beside the reedy river.

Up from Eubœa's caverns came

The Nereids, bearing

Gold armour from the Lords of Flame,

Wrought for his wearing:

Long sought those daughters of the deep,

Up Pclion's glen, up Ossa's steep

Forest enchanted,

Where Peleus reared alone, afar,

His lost sea-maiden's child, the star

Of Hellas, and swift help of war

When weary armies panted.