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165-173 And now may Apollo be favourable and Artemis; and farewell
all you maidens. Remember me in after time whenever any one of men on
earth, a stranger who has seen and suffered much, comes here and asks of
you: Whom think ye, girls, is the sweetest singer that comes here, and
in whom do you most delight?’ Then answer, each and all, with one voice:
He is a blind man, and dwells in rocky Chios: his lays are evermore
supreme.