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Of the nymphs of the mountains
His home had not been,
Nor where roses and bluebells for Goddesses bloomed amid watermeads green!

Came the Queen of Beguiling 1300
With love-litten eye
Passion-kindling, and smiling
As for victory nigh;
Came Pallas in pride of her prowess, and Hera the Queen of the Sky:

And Hermes was there,
The Herald of Heaven.
So the Strife of Most Fair,
Loathed contest, was striven,
Whereof to me death, but to Danaans glory, O damsels, was given. 1310

Me the Huntress receiveth
For her firstfruits of prey,
And mine own sire leaveth
His child—doth betray
A daughter most wretched, O mother, my mother, and fieeth away.

Woe's me to have seen her—
Helen, whose name
Is a bitterness keener
Than words may frame!
She is made to me slaughter and doom, and a father's deed of shame.

O had Aulis received not
Bronze prows long embayed! 1320