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Rh Failing of duty to allies?

Since for a wind-abating sacrifice

And virgin blood,—'t is right they strive,

Nay, madden with desire.

Well may it work them—this that they require!"

But when he underwent necessity's

Yoke-trace,—from soul blowing unhallowed change

Unclean, abominable,—thence—another man—

The audacious mind of him began

Its wildest range.

For this it is gives mortals hardihood—

Some vice-devising miserable mood

Of madness, and first woe of all the brood.

The sacrificer of his daughter—strange!—