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Rh Then let the friendly townsmen tell,

Nor e'en the candid foe conceal

What his strong arm hath wrought so well,

Laborious for the common weal.

The words of ocean's hoary sage

Submissive reverence should engage.

"Crown e'en an enemy's fair deed

With approbation's honest meed."

Thee too at Pallas' stated feasts

Full often have my eyes survey'd

Triumphant o'er th' assembled guests,

While many a silent gazing maid

Her husband or her offspring thee

Has wish'd, oh Telesicrates, to be!

To him in bright Olympia's day,

And in deep-bosom'd Rhea's fray,

And heroes on his native field

The palm in every contest yield.

From me, then, who the debt would pay,

Slaking my thirst of song, they claim

Once more to build the lyric lay,

And hymn thy great forefathers' fame:

As to Irasa's walls the suitors came,

To seek the Libyan nymph, Antæus' fair-hair'd dame.

Kinsmen with many a stranger vied,

Illustrious throng! to call her bride—

Eager to crop of form sublime

The flow'ret in its golden prime:

But her ambitious sire, whose ear

From Argive Danaus joy'd to hear

That he had bound in wedlock's tie

His numerous virgin progeny