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What counter-stroke to this dealt Zeus' haught Queen?

Why, then she found a keeper for the cow,

Him that hath eyes which look all ways at once.

And what was he, this all-beholding one,

Sole neatherd of a solitary cow?

Argus, earth's child, the same that Hermes slew.

And the device that followed? What thing else

Prepared she for the heifer heaven-accursed?

She did afflict her with the gnat that stings,

A drover's goad-prick to stampeding kine.

They call him 'Gad-fly' on the banks of Nile.

What? Did he drive her forth from her own land

As far as Nile?

He did so: and thy tale

Tallies in each particular with mine.

And is it true then that she reached Canopus

And Memphis far inland?