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ANDROMEDA.
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Hide of Amaltheié, fair nurse of the Ægis-wielder.Hither I bear it, a gift to the gods, and a death to my foe-men, Freezing the seer to stone; to hide thine eyes from the horror. Kiss me but once, and I go.'Then lifting her neck, like a sea-bird Peering up over the wave, from the foam-white swells of her bosom, Blushing she kissed him: afar, on the topmost Idalian summit Laughed in the joy of her heart, far-seeing, the queen Aphrodité. Loosing his arms from her waist he flew upward, awaiting the sea-beast. 370 Onward it came from the southward, as bulky and black as a galley, Lazily coasting along, as the fish fled leaping before it;
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