Page:Choëphoroe (Murray 1923).djvu/58

Rh

And exalt and make him great:

Two- and threefold shall he pay thee

Love's reward.

—Seest thou one lost, alone,

Child of him who loved thee well?

As a young steed he doth go,

Maddened, in the yoke of woe:

Oh, set measure on the swell,

Forth and fro, forth and fro,

Of the beating hoofs that bear him

Through this bitter course. Oh, spare him!

By his innocence we pray thee

Be his guard!

There is One within the Gate

Of his foemen, where they wait;

Oh, prefer him, Zeus, before them

And exalt and make him great:

Two- and threefold shall he pay thee

Love's reward.

—Gods of the treasure-house within,

One-hearted, where the bronzen door

On darkness gloateth and on gold:

With present cleansing wash the old

Blight of this house: and aged Sin

Amid the gloom shall breed no more!

And, O light of the Great Cavern, let it be

That this Man's house look up again, and see,