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Not yet! So much the dullest seer can read.

What mean'st thou? There is something ye have heard!

Go, tell thy tale. Obey thy mistress' word!

God, where He guardeth, guardeth faithfully.

I go.—May all be well, God helping me!

[The goes out.

—Lo, I pray God, this day:

Father of Olympus, hear!

Grant thy fortunes healingly

Fall for them who crave to see

In this House of lust and fear,

Purity, purity.

—I have sinned not, I have spoken

In the name of Law unbroken;

Zeus, as thou art just, we pray thee

Be his guard!

There is One within the Gate

Of his foemen, where they wait;

Oh, prefer him, Zeus, before them