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NSPIR'D by thee, O Phœbus, I resound The glorious deeds of heroes long renown'd, Whom Pelias urg'd the Golden Fleece to gain, And well-built Argo wafted o'er the main, Through the Cyanean rocks. The voice divine Pronounc'd this sentence from the sacred shrine; 'Ere long, and dreadful woes, foredoom'd by fate, 'Thro' that man's counsels shall on Pelias wait, 'Whom he, before the altar of his God, 'Shall view in public with one sandal shod.' And, lo! as by this oracle foretold, What time adventurous Jason, brave and bold, Anaurus past, high swoln with winter's flood, He left one sandal rooted in the mud. To