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CHAPTER 1. CANTO THE FIRST.
I / Oh, thou, in Hellas deemed of heavenly birth, / Muse, formed or fabled at the minstrel's will! / Since shamed full oft by later lyres on earth, / mine dares not call thee from thy sacred hill: / Yet there I've wandered by thy vaunted rill; / yes, sighed o'er Delphi's long‑deserted shrine, / where-save that feeble fountain-all is still; / nor mote my shell awake the weary Nine to grace so plain a tale-this lowly lay of mine.