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Within green upland glens to seek for rest, Were blown across the islands from the west: From towns and tribes he ruled, and gave command Through coasts and islets of the Argive land. IV. Sidonian merchant-men.html">men had seen the fleet Had heard the hammers of the bronze-smiths beat And thin, said they, would show the leafy crown For men had fell'd the pine-trees tall and brown Old men from Argos, bearing holy boughs, And sore despite done Menelaus' house; And all their weary voyaging was vain; To cleave to Helen till the walls were ta'en. VI. And now, like swallows ere the winter weather, With eager tongues still communing together, Ay, through her innocence she felt the sting, For e'en the children evil songs would sing As she had been a goddess from above, As she were naught but Paris' light-o'-love; Of that fair gem in their old city set, Went round the camp-fire when the warriors met. VIII. There came a certain holiday when Troy Young wives and old, with clamour and with joy, And robe her in a stately broider'd pall. "Better," they scream'd, "to cast her from the wall, Ay, fickle Paris, true unto the end; Kind hearts, still eager Helen to defend, The gentle Hector with soft speech and mild, And loved her as a father doth his child. X. These, though they knew not all, these blamed her not, Whose wrath, they deem'd, had verily waxed hot And in God's hand was Helen but the rod Had vex'd the far Olympian abode And still the Argive army did delay, .

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