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75.<br />

From heaven, they<br />

fabled, thrown by angry<br />

Jove<br />

Sheer o'er the crystal battlements<br />

from morn<br />

To noon he fell, from<br />

noon to dewy eve,<br />

A summer's day and with<br />

the setting sun<br />

Dropp'd from the zenith<br />

like a falling star<br />

On Lemnos, th' Aegean<br />

isle thus they relate."<br />

"Paradise Lost," i. 738<br />

It is ingeniously observed by<br />

Grote, vol i p. 463, that "<strong>The</strong><br />

gods formed a sort <strong>of</strong> political<br />

community <strong>of</strong> their own which<br />

had its hierarchy, its distribution<br />

<strong>of</strong> ranks and duties, its<br />

contentions for power and oc-

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