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So, in the glorious parable, behold

How, bow'd to mortal bonds, of old

Life's dreary path divine Alcides trod:

The hydra and the lion were his prey,

And to restore the friend he loved today,

He went undaunted to the black-brow'd God;

And all the torments and the labors sore

Wroth Juno sent—the meek majestic One,

With patient spirit and unquailing, bore,

Until the course was run—