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Ha, see: above the roof-tree high

There shineth Is some spirit there

Of earth or heaven? That thin air

Was never trod by things that die!

What bodes it now that forth they fare,

To men revealèd visibly?

[There appears in the air a vision of and. The mortals kneel or veil their faces.

Thou Agamemnon's Son, give ear! 'Tis we,

Castor and Polydeuces, call to thee,

God's Horsemen and thy mother's brethren twain.

An Argive ship, spent with the toiling main,

We bore but now to peace, and, here withal

Being come, have seen thy mother's bloody fall,

Our sister's. Righteous is her doom this day,

But not thy deed. And Phoebus, Phoebus Nay;

He is my lord; therefore I hold my peace.

Yet though in light he dwell, no light was this

He showed to thee, but darkness! Which do thou

Endure, as man must, chafing not. And now

Fare forth where Zeus and Fate have laid thy life.

The maid Electra thou shalt give for wife

To Pylades; then turn thy head and flee

From Argos' land. 'Tis never more for thee

To tread this earth where thy dead mother lies.

Andy lo, in the air her Spirits, bloodhound eyes,