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l Our sappy pines on winter hearths burn swift ; Swifter the dry cone. Poring on scholiast script with single eye, Poor Polyphemus ! Nursing a goddess we, the common fry How should he deem us ?
1 ' God-like among women ' an Homeric phrase. 28 What else drove blood in wizened cheek again, Gave him his two eyes ? We pushed a Galatea l in his ken, Her and her blue eyes ! Hopes lit him; questioned qualms ' If Love should cheat ? ' (How the days wore on !) Age posed his bitter 'gainst her springing
...sweet ; ' There's oxymoron ! 2 Aye, and the oil and water in one flask ?
^Eschylus hints it. ' 3 What's Nature or her laws ? That's Love's own task ; Omnia vincit ! 4 Omnia vicit, too ! (What coward jeers ' Atropos occat ' ? 5 On this day speak of the abhorred shears ?
What's here to mock at ?
1 Galatea was a maid with whom, according to Theocritus, Polyphemus fell in love.
2 A classical figure, signifying the collocation of opposites.
3 Cf. Agamemnon, 322. ^Eschylus actually says ' -vinegar and oil' ; but the result is the same.


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