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This is God's law and grace,

Who then shall hunt the race

Of curses from out this hall?

The House is sealed withal

To dreadfulness.

Aye, thou hast found the Law, and stept

In Truth's way.—Yet even now I call

The Living Wrath which haunts this hall

To truce and compact. I accept

All the affliction he doth heap

Upon me, and I charge him go

Far off with his self-murdering woe

To strange men's houses. I will keep

Some little dower, and leave behind

All else, contented utterly.

I have swept the madness from the sky

Wherein these brethren slew their kind.

O shining day, O dawn of righteousness

Fulfilled! Now, now indeed will I confess

That divine watchers o'er man's death and birth

Look down on all the anguish of the earth,

Now that I see him lying, as I love

To see him, in this net the Furies wove,

To atone the old craft of his father's hand.

For Atreus, this man's father, in this land