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For their gratitude’s praise for his kindness is gushing

From the hearts in loving reverence bowed.

O Deinomenes’ son, the Lokrian maid

In the far west sings at her door unafraid

The delivering might of thine arm, that stayed

War’s march of afflictions spirit-crushing,

That her eyes no longer are terror-cowed.

In old-time legend it stands recorded

That Ixion, the while on the fire-winged wheel

By the sentence of Gods he is endlessly whirled,

Ever shrieketh his warning, a cry that is hurled

Unto men’s ears up from the underworld⁠—

“Be the kindness of thy benefactors rewarded

With all the love that thine heart can reveal!”