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Ay, and that Hera that embrace surmised.

How issued then this strife of those on high?

By Hera's will, a heifer she became.

Held Zeus aloof then from the hornèd beast?

'Tis said, he loved, in semblance of a bull

And his stern consort, did she aught thereon?

One myriad-eyed she set, the heifer's guard.

How namest thou this herdsman many-eyed?

Argus, the child of Earth, whom Hermes slew.

Still did the goddess vex the beast ill-starred?