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Excerpt from The Immortals: Argument of Hon. Stephen W. Downey of Wyoming Territory in the House of Representatives, Tuesday, April 13, 1880, a Bill Providing for Certain Paintings on the Walls of the National Capitol
There chaste Diana, hearth-stone guardian; There Hebe, with innumerable nymphs And lesser deities, all listening, wait.
Th' Olympian Temple, where the council sat, Bore on its walls the trophies of renown From ancient martial fields of gods and men Huge sabers, gleaming swords with golden hilts; The massive, ponderous spear of Hercules N 0 human power could wield; th' elaborate shield Which Vulcan wrought for Peleus' godlike son, Upon whose golden disk were deftly graved The scenes of peace and war; mysterious art! A forge-wrought mirror of th' ethereal dome Metallic picture of terrestrial life Invulnerable armor 'gainst the foe 'the gleaming harbinger of Trojan doom.
When by the arrow sped from Paris' bow, Upon the threshold of Apollo's fane, Prostrate the chieftain, great Achilles, lay; Ulysses strove with Ajax for the shield.
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