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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
And, for the house's fostering care,<br />
Unbidden all, it revels there,<br />
And bloody recompense repays-<br />
Rent flesh of kine, its talons tare:<br />
A mighty beast, that slays, and slays,<br />
And mars with blood the household fair,<br />
A God-sent pest invincible,<br />
A minister of fate and hell.<br />
strophe 3<br />
Even so to Ilion's city came by stealth<br />
A spirit as of windless seas and skies,<br />
A gentle phantom-form of joy and wealth,<br />
With love's soft arrows speeding from its eyes-<br />
Love's rose, whose thorn doth pierce the soul in subtle wise.<br />
Ah, well-a-day! the bitter bridal-bed,<br />
When the fair mischief lay by Paris' side!<br />
What curse on palace and on people sped<br />
With her, the Fury sent on Priam's pride,<br />
By angered Zeus! what tears of many a widowed bride!<br />
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