_Helena_ 1603.

20

_A Storm_

So is it as a wave
Of ocean's billowing surge
(Where Thrakian storm-winds rave,
And floods of darkness from the depths emerge,)
Rolls the black sand from out the lowest deep,
And shores re-echoing wail, as rough blasts o'er them sweep.
Sophocles: _Antigone_ 586 [Plumptre].

21

Steering their rough course o'er this boisterous main,
Form'd in a ring beneath whose waves
The Nereid train in high-arch'd caves
Weave the light dance, and raise the sprightly song,
Whilst whisp'ring in their swelling sails
Soft Zephyrs breathe, or southern gales
Piping amidst their tackling play,
As their bark ploughs its wat'ry way
Those hoary cliffs, the haunts of birds, among,
To that wild strand, the rapid race
Where once Achilles deigned to grace.
Euripides: _Iphigenia among the Tauri_ 492.

(Specimens of Gnomic Verses)

22

Amongst barbarians all are slaves, save one.
_Helena_ 311.

23

He is no lover who not always loves.
_Daughters of Troy_ 1148.

24

What our necessities demand, becomes
Of greater moment than to conquer Troy.
_Andromache_ 427.

25

'Tis not the counsel, but the speaker's worth,
That gives persuasion to his eloquence.
_Hecuba_ 266.

26

Skilful leech
Mutters no spell o'er sore that needs the knife.
_Ajax_ 581.

27

It is through God that man or laughs or mourns.
_Ajax_ 385.

28

No mortal man
May therefore be call'd happy, till you see
The last of all his days, and how, that pass'd,
He to the realms of Pluto shall descend.
_Andromache_ 114.

29

All human things
A day lays low, a day lifts up again;
But still the gods love those of order'd soul.
_Ajax_ 130.

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