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 All land in fee, that with broad-spreading flood

Nile waters. Lo, from him the fifth descent,

A brood of fifty, shall return again,

Not of free will, to Argos, seed of daughters,

Fleeing close-blooded union, lest they wed

Their cousins: these, their hearts being passion-winnow'd,

Kites on the track of doves nor far behind,

Shall come in chase of wedlock, which to chase

Is sin: but God's misliking eye shall reave

Those lusty bodies, and Pelasgic earth

Shall cover them,—bodies of men brought down

In war of women's hands, by desperate mood

That in the night keeps watch: for every woman

Shall spoil the life of her particular lord,

In his soft throat drenching a two-edged brand.

Such bridal commerce,—may 't befall my foes!

One only maiden some soft pain shall hold

From slaying him beside her: her resolve

Shall turn back blunted: of two evil names