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Horror, if the blind can see!

Answer but one thing and ’twill all be clear.

Speak. I will answer though I shake with fear.

Went he with scant array, or a great band

Of armed followers, like a lord of land?

Four men were with him, one a herald; one

Chariot there was, where Laïus rode alone.

Aye me! ’Tis clear now.

Woman, who could bring

To Thebes the story of that manslaying?

A house-thrall, the one man they failed to slay.

The one man Is he in the house to-day?

Indeed no. When he came that day, and found

Thee on the throne where once sat Laïus crowned,

He took my hand and prayed me earnestly