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...very happy epithet itself) is to compare it with a translation of the same passage by another hand : Many a fire before them blazed : As when in heaven the stars about the .nioon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes out, and jutting peak And...

...the houses brought, and heaped Their firewood, and the winds from off the plain Rolled the rich vapor far into the heaven. .And these all night upon the bridge of war . ii"£at glorying]^ many a fj^g. before them blazed: "' J'^As when in heaven the stars about the moon...

...words which, though new, are yet three thousand years old : ". . . When in heaven the stars about the Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And every height comes oat, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Break open to their highest, and all...

...presented. How telling this comparison of the Trojan watch-fires in Tennyson's version of the Homeric lines: "As when in heaven the stars about the moon Look beautiful, when all the winds are laid, And ever)7 height comes out, and jutting peak And valley, and the immeasurable heavens Ureak open to their...