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When the robust and Brass-bound Man commissioned first for sea / His fragile raft, Poseidon laughed, and 'Mariner,' said he, / 'Behold, a Law immutable I lay on thee and thine, / That never shall ye act or tell a falsehood at my shrine.
'Let Zeus adjudge your landward kin, whose votive meal and salt / At easy-cheated altars win oblivion for the fault, / But you the unhoodwinked wave shall test -- the immediate gulf condemn -- / Except ye owe the Fates a jest, be slow to jest with them.