And overtook the ass, but lent no aid;
And offer’d Charon with her teeth his fee;
And pass’d the floating ghost, in vain who pray’d;
And turned her back upon the weavers three:
And threw the honey-cake to that hell-hound
Three-headed Cerberus; and safe and sound,
Came to the mansion of Persephonè.
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Kindly received, she courtesy declined;
Sat on the ground; ate not, save where she lay,