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"The hour arrived -- years having rolled away When his return the Gods no more delay. Lo! Ithaca the Fates award; and there New trials meet the Wanderer. " HOMER: _Od._ lib. i, 16.
THERE is continual spring and harvest here -- Continual, both meeting at one time; For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime; And eke at once the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruit's load. SPENSER: _The Garden of Adonis_.