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Excerpt from The Tale of the Argonauts
Of Orpheus first will I sing, of the child that Calliope bare, As telleth the tale, for she loved Oeagrus, Thracia's heir. By the peak Pimplean was born the Song-queen's wondrous child For they tell how he charmed by the voice of his song on the mountains wild The stubborn rocks into life, made rivers their ?owing refrain, And the wildwood oaks this day be memorials of that weird strain For they burgeon and bloom by Zoné yet on the Thracian shore, Ranked orderly line upon line, the selfsame trees which of yore, 30 Spell-drawn by his lyre, from Pieria followed the minstrel on. Such an one was the Orpheus that Aison's son for a helper won For his high emprise, when he followed the pointing of Cheiron's hand, Orpheus, who ruled o'er the Bistonid folk in Pieria-land.
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