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38 Because of—not his own—another's wife.

But things there be, one barks,

When no man harks:

A surreptitious grief that's grudge

Against the Atreidai, who first sought the judge.

But some there, round the rampart, have

In Ilian earth, each one his grave:

All fair-formed as at birth,

It hid them—what they have and hold—the hostile earth.

And grave with anger goes the city's word,

And pays a debt by public curse incurred.

And ever with me—as about to hear

A something night-involved—remains my fear: