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by Zeus relenting the mandate was revoked,
 * Sentencing to exile the bright Sun-God,

Mindful were the ploughmen of who the steer had yoked,
 * Who: and what a track showed the upturned sod!

Mindful were the shepherds as now the noon severe
 * Bent a burning eyebrow to brown evetide,

How the rustic flute drew the silver to the sphere,
 * Sister of his own, till her rays fell wide.
 * God! of whom music
 * And song and blood are pure,
 * The day is never darkened
 * That had thee here obscure.