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252 To aid, while sojourning on earth,

His spouse at the Herculean birth,

Or of Tiresias' counsels wise,

Or Iolaus, skilful charioteer,

Or earth-sown heroes, wielding as they rise

The indefatigable spear:

Or when thou sent'st Adrastus far

From the rude shout and din of war,

Reft of his numerous friends, to roam

Back to equestrian Argos home:

Or when from distant Doris' land

Thou gavest on foot erect to stand

The colony of Spartan line—

Thy sons besieged Amyclæ's wall,

Ægidæ, faithful to the call

Of the prophetic Pythian shrine.

But mighty deeds of old renown

Sleep unremember'd and unknown,

Save when enrich'd the record lie

In the sweet dews of poetry.

Then lead the pomp, the hymn's soft lays

Awake, Strepsiades to praise,