And all the birds, that in those courts were bred,
Of her broad eaves the nested families,
Sparrows and swallows, join’d their companies
Awhile and twitter’d to her overhead.
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But onward she with fading tracks of flame
Sped swiftly, till she reacht her journey’s end:
And when within the house of Zeus she came,
She pray’d the Sire of Heaven that he would lend
Hermes, the Argus-slayer, for her hest;