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The Argonauts
The Argonauts (1904), PDF p. 34
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6 ARGONAUTAE
And the perched watcher on the mast behold
The melting mirror of the ocean meet
The crystallizing concave of the sky?
ARGUS.
All this shall happen when the work is done.
JASON.
How many moons, friend fool, before that day?
ARGUS.
These things are known not even to the Gods.
Except the Father only.
HERACLES.
Fools must talk.
ARGUS.
I talk, divulging nothing.
HERACLES.
I strike thee,
Yet act not.
ARGUS.
Hero, stay that heavy hand!
The ship shall sail ere spring.
THESEUS.
But now you talk
More as befits a workman to a king.
JASON.
Be gentle now, my friends! These shipbuilders,
Reared in the rugged borders of the North,
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