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On wings upborne, or feet that trod the ground?

Menelaus from the land hath sailed with her,—
He who with tidings of his own death came.

O monstrous tale!—what galley from this land
Bare her?—for these thy words are past belief. 1520

Even that thou gavest: yea, with thine own men
The stranger went—that briefly thou may'st learn.

How?—I am fain to know. Never it came
Into my thought that one arm could o'ermatch
So great a crew, with whom thyself wast sent. 1525

Soon as, departing from these royal halls,
The child of Zeus passed down unto the sea,
Pacing with delicate feet, she subtly raised
Wails for the spouse beside her, and not dead.
When to thy docks' wide compass we were come, 1530
The swiftest ship Sidonian launched we then
With full array of fifty thwarts and rowers.
And swiftly task succeeding task was done.
One set the mast up, one ran out the oars
Ready to hand ; the white sails folded lay: 1535
Dropped was the rudder, lashed unto its bands.