May cause life's fairest portion in thick growth
[*]To burgeon from the earth.
Athena. Yea, I work with kindliest feeling
For these my townsmen, having settled
Powers great, and hard to soothe among them:
Unto them the lot is given,
All things human still to order;
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He who hath not felt their pressure
Knows not whence life's scourges smite him: