Appoints that suffering masterfully teach,

in sleep, before the heart of each,

A woe-remembering travail sheds in dew

Discretion,—ay, and melts the unwilling too

By what, perchance, may be a graciousness

Of gods, enforced no less,—

As they, commanders of the crew,

Assume the awful seat.

And then the old leader of the Achaian fleet,

Disparaging no seer—