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“Courage I give thee ; the heart of a queen, and the mind 
of Immortals ; 
Godlike to talk with the gods, and to look on their eyes 
unshrinking ; 
Fearing the sun and the stars no more, and the blue salt 
water ; 
Fearing us only, the lords of Olympus, friends of the 
heroes ; 
Chastely and wisely to govern thyself and thy house and 
thy people, 
Bearing a god-like race to thy spouse, till dying I set 
thee 
High for a star in the heavens, a sign and a hope to the 
seamen, 
Spreading thy long white arms all night in the heights of 
the zether, 
Hard by thy sire and the hero thy spouse, while near thee 
thy mother 
Sits in her ivory chair, as she plaits ambrosial tresses. 
All night long thou wilt shine ; all day thou wilt feast on 
Olympus, 
Happy, the guest of the gods, by thy husband, the god- 
begotten.” . 
The substance of the story is also given by William 
Morris in his “The Earthly Paradise,” in the tale en- 
titled “The Doom of King Acrisius.” The poetic 
legend adds to our interest in the plant; the plant adds 
to our interest in the poetic legend. 
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