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But they cried to the Lord of Shipmen to bring them safely through

The resistless rush of the Countering Rocks; for these were two,

And alive they were, and onward they rolled more fearful-fast

Than the thunderous-roaring battalions of winds; but death at the last

By the demigods’ voyage was dealt them. To Phasis then came they,

And there with the swart-faced Colchians they clashed in battle-play,

Yea, in the very presence of King Aietes. Then

The Queen of the Darts keen-piercing brought from Olympus to men

That dappled bird of the madness of love, the wryneck, and bound

Was the thing by the Lady of Cyprus on a wheel whirled ceaselessly round