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He bestowed the lyre,

And he gives the muse to whom he wishes,

Bringing peaceful serenity to the breast.

The phantom of a shadow are men.

He reared the white-armed child Cyrene,

Who loved neither the alternating motion of the loom,

Nor the superintendence of feasts,

With the pleasures of companions;

But, with javelins of steel

And the sword contending,

To slay wild beasts;

Affording surely much

And tranquil peace to her father's herds;

Spending little sleep

Upon her eyelids,

As her sweet bedfellow, creeping on at dawn.