 | Poetical Works of Robert Bridges excluding the eight dramas
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Thussed he, & th'old king reassured spake after in answer.
‘See, lad, how good it is to offer due gifts in atonement
Unto the gods: for, sure as he liv'd, my son never injur'd,
Nay nor at home forgat, the powers that rule in Olympos:
Wherefore ev'n i' the grave have they his piety remember'd.
But come, an' at my hands this daintily-wrought flagon accept:
And thou guard & guide me, that I, if so be the gods' will,
Safe may arrive with these my goods to the tent of Achilles.’
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