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Rh Are not able to bear these with grace,

But the wise, turning the fair outside.

But thee the lot of good fortune follows,

For surely great Destiny

Looks down upon a king ruling the people,

If on any man. But a secure life

Was not to Peleus, son of Æacus,

Nor to godlike Cadmus,

Who yet are said to have had

The greatest happiness

Of mortals, and who heard

The song of the golden-filleted Muses,

On the mountain, and in seven-gated Thebes,

When the one married fair-eyed Harmonia,

And the other Thetis, the illustrious daughter of wise-counseling Nereus.

And the gods feasted with both;

And they saw the royal children of Kronos

On golden seats, and received

Marriage gifts; and having exchanged

Former toils for the favor of Zeus,

They made erect the heart.

But in course of time

His three daughters robbed the one

Of some of his serenity by acute

Sufferings; when Father Zeus, forsooth, came

To the lovely couch of white-armed Thyone.

And the other's child, whom only the immortal