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That rises eminently o'er

Epirus' wide-extended shore,

And from Dodona lifts the brow

To where the Ionian waters flow,

Giving in numerous herds to graze,

Young Neoptolemus obeys.

Iolcos, fair Thessalian town,

Which Pelion's woody summits crown,

Attack'd by hostile hand, a slave

Peleus to his Hæmonians gave.

He whom Acastus' crafty dame,

Hippolyta, by guile o'ercame;

While Pelias' son's Dædalian blade

For him the fatal ambush laid.

But Chiron far the peril drove,

Fulfilling the decrees of Jove.

He the dread fire's all-potent might,

The terrors of the sharpened claws

And teeth that arm the direful jaws

Of lions raging for the fight,