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 And this that is done unto me of her,

This foul and child-slaying lioness?

But still to my utmost as best I may

I make these death-wails and invokings for them;

Thus to my witness calling the gods,

How them, having slain my sons, dost prevent

That I touch with my hand and bury the dead—

Whom would I had never begotten so

By thee to behold them destroyed.

Zeus in Olympus parts out many lots,

And the gods work to many undreamed of ends,

And that we looked for is never fulfilled,

And to things not looked for the gods make a way:

Even so hath this issue been.