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Rh But thou, Tundareus' daughter, Klutaimnestra queen,

What need? What new? What having heard or seen,

By what announcement's tidings, everywhere

Settest thou, round about, the sacrifice a-flare?

For, of all gods the city-swaying,

Those supernal, those infernal,

Those of the fields', those of the mart's obeying,—

The altars blaze with gifts;

And here and there, heaven-high the torch uplifts

Flame—medicated with persuasions mild,

With foul admixture unbeguiled—

Of holy unguent, from the clotted chrism

Brought from the palace, safe in its abysm.

Of these things, speaking what may be indeed

Both possible and lawful to concede,