Roused the next station of the courier flame.

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And that far-travelled light the sentries there

Refused not, burning more than all yet named:

And then the light swooped o'er Gorgôpis' lake,

And passing on to Ægiplanctos' mount,

Bade the bright fire's due order tarry not;

And they, enkindling boundless store, send on

A mighty beard of flame, and then it passed

The headland e'en that looks on Saron's gulf,