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And what wouldst thou with blood, having therein

No place? Henceforth thine altars are unclean!

Did Zeus, then, sin, who bowed his head to spare

Blood-red Ixîon for his burning prayer?

Thou speakest: but my Law, if it be broke,

Shall come again in wrath to haunt this folk.

Thou hast no honour more 'mid things divine,

Or old or new: the victory shall be mine.

So in Admêtus' House thou didst betray

The Fates, to make man deathless past his day.

Shall not a god regard his worshipper

Then chiefliest, when in peril and in prayer?

The ancient boundaries thou didst desecrate,

Thou mad'st a drunkard of Eternal Fate!

True Justice thou canst know not. Thou shalt spue

Thy venom forth, and none give heed thereto.