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The sacrificer of his daughter strange!
He dared become, to expedite
Woman-avenging warfare, anchors weighed
With such prelusive rite!
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Prayings and callings Father naught they made
Of these, and of the virgin-age,
Captains heart-set on war to wage!
His ministrants, vows done, the father bade
Kid-like, above the altar, swathed in pall,
Take her lift high, and have no fear at all,
Head-downward, and the fair mouths guard
And frontage hold, press hard
From utterance a curse against the House
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By dint of bit-violence bridling speech.
And as to ground her saffron-vest she shed,
She smote the sacrificers all and each
With arrow sweet and piteous,
From the eye only sped,
Significant of will to use a word,
Just as in pictures: since, full many a time,
In her sires guest-hall, by the well-heaped board
Had she made music, lovingly with chime
Of her chaste voice, that unpolluted thing,
Honoured the third libation, paian that should bring
Good fortune to the sire she loved so well.
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What followed those things I nor saw nor tell.
But Kalchas arts, whateer they indicate,
Miss of fulfilment never: it is fate.
True, justice makes, in sufferers, a desire
To know the future woe preponderate.

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