FROM THE “ILIAD.”

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He also graved on it a fallow field,

Rich, spacious, and well tilled. Plowers not few,

There driving to and fro their sturdy teams,

Labor’d the land; and oft as in their course

They came to the field’s bourn, so oft a man

Met them, who in their hands a goblet placed,

Charged with delicious wine. They, turning, wrought

Each his own furrow, and impatient seem’d