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A word momentous calmly hast thou spoken.

Him nam'st thou ancestor whom all the world

Knows as a sometime favorite of the gods?

Is it that Tantalus, whom Jove himself

Drew to his council and his social board?

On whose experienc'd words, with wisdom fraught,

As on the language of an oracle,

E'en gods delighted hung?