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Atalanta in Calydon

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Althaea

Praise be with men abroad; chaste lives with us,
  Home-keeping days and household reverences.

Meleager

Next by the left unsandalled foot know thou
  The sail and oar of this Aetolian land,
  Thy brethren, Toxeus and the violent-souled
  Plexippus, over-swift with hand and tongue;
  For hands are fruitful, but the ignorant mouth
  Blows and corrupts their work with barren breath.

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