Ajax The Great Himself A Host.

To Speak His Thoughts Is Every Freeman's Right, In Peace And War, In Council And In Fight.

It Was Built Against The Will Of The Immortal Gods, And So It Did Not Last For Long.

One Omen Is Best, To Fight In Defense Of One's Country.

One Man Is A Splendid Fighter -- A God Has Made Him So -- One's A Dancer, Another Skilled At Lyre And Song, And Deep In The Next Man's Chest Farseeing Zeus Plants The Gift Of Judgment, Good Clear Sense. And Many Reap The Benefits Of That Treasure.

And When Long Years And Seasons Wheeling Brought Around That Point Of Time Ordained For Him To Make His Passage Homeward, Trials And Dangers, Even So, Attended Him Even In Ithaca, Near Those He Loved.