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And hence a line of native kings

In regular succession springs.

Ere yet th' Olympic ruler's hand

Had ravish'd from th' Epean land

The daughter of fair Opus' lord,

And on the dark Mænalian heights

Mingled with her in love's delights;

To Locrus then his bride restored,

Lest age, death's harbinger, should doom

The childless monarch to the tomb.

Soon as the heavenly scion came,

The raptured hero gazed with joy

On the supposititious boy,

And call'd him by his uncle's name—

In manly deeds and outward grace

Above the sons of mortal race—

Permitting to his sceptred hand

Dominion o'er the subject land.

From Argos some, from Thebes, and Pisa's plain,

And fair Arcadia, throng the frequent train.

But most his love and admiration won

Menætius, Actor and Ægina's son:

Whose offspring, when brave Atreus' host

Invaded Teuthras' Mysian land,

Alone could with Achilles boast

The adverse army to withstand:

When Telephus the Grecian train

Drove seaward to their ships again.

Hence might the wise and prudent find

The strength of great Patroclus' mind.

Hence might the tender love appear

By Thetis' warlike offspring shown;

"Quit not," he said, "my conquering spear,

Nor join the war's array alone."