And bade the mighty gods obey his call.
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Then all the Kronian gods and goddesses
Assembl’d at his cry,—and now ’twas known
Why Zeus had smiled,—the lesser majesties
Attending them before his royal throne.
Athena, mistress good of them that know,
Came, and Apollo, warder off of woe,
Who had to Psyche’s sire her fate foreshown;
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