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202 And there make ready. Woman's will can find

Many a thing shall eke the feasting out.

Yea, and within the house is store enough

To satisfy for one day these with meat.

In such things, when my thoughts turn thitherward,

I mark what mighty vantage substance hath,

To give to guests, to medicine the body

In sickness: but for needs of daily food

Not far it reacheth. Each man, rich and poor,

Can be but filled, when hunger is appeased.

[Exit Peasant. Electra enters the cottage.

O galleys renowned, by your myriad-sweeping

Oars hurled high on the Trojan strand,

Whom the Sea-maids followed, with dances surrounding

Your dusky prows, when the dolphin was bounding

Around them, bewitched by your music, and leaping

In sinuous rapture on every hand,

Escorting Achilles, the fleetfoot son

Of Thetis, with King Agamemnon on

Unto where broad Simoïs, seaward-creeping

Rippled and glittered o'er Trojan sand.

And the Sea-maids fleeted by shores Eubœan

From the depths where the golden anvils are

Of the Fire-god, a hero's harness bearing—

Over Pelion, over the wild spurs faring

Of Ossa, over the glens Nymphæan;

From the watchtower-crags outgazing afar

They sought where his father, the chariot-lord,

Fostered for Thetis a sea-born ward,