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EPIGRAM CLXVI.
[Diagoras, an Athenian wight]
PLUS ULTRA.
Diagoras, an Athenian wight,
A wooden Hercules made;
To which at morn, and eke at night,
He constant orisons paid.
A wooden Hercules made;
To which at morn, and eke at night,
He constant orisons paid.
Twelve Labours by his Deity wrought,
In solemn hymns he prais'd;
And from such warm devotion thought
A powerful patron rais'd.
In solemn hymns he prais'd;
And from such warm devotion thought
A powerful patron rais'd.
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Year after year, this course he drove;
Still pray'd; still poorer grew;
At last the timber son of Jove
Amidst the flames he threw.
Still pray'd; still poorer grew;
At last the timber son of Jove
Amidst the flames he threw.
“My daily theme,” quoth he, “erewhile,
“Thy labours twelve have been;
“Now help the fire my pot to boil;—
“And that will make thirteen!”
“Thy labours twelve have been;
“Now help the fire my pot to boil;—
“And that will make thirteen!”
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