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from the Greek Captains, is found singing to his lyre the praises of certain heroes. -- The story of Thamyris, the blind bard, who dwelt with Eurytus, King of ŒChalla, is told. Agamemnon had a poet among his domestics. Phemius, in Ithaca, and Demodocus, in PhŒacia, attend the feast, and entertain the guests with song. Many other passages could be referred to, both in the Iliad and the Odyssey, to prove the existence of bards as a distinct profession. The condition of ancient Greece, indeed,ise to the race of bards, who sung the exploits of their patrons at every feast.--Such was Blondel, the bard of the Lionhearted Richard. Such, in the splendid novel of Scott, was Cradwallon of the hundred lays. Such, no doubt, were Phemius and Demodocus in the Odyssey, and Thamyris in the Iliad. The songs of these bards had doubtless been transmitted, by recitation of their successors, to the time in which Homer lived. Out of these materials, no doubt, he formed the great works which are wit