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 Wedlock the highest? He, the Lord of Heaven,

Is waxen hot, pierced with desire of thee,

Yea and with thee would tread the passages

Of love's delight. Now therefore foot not from thee,

O child, the bed of the Highest; but do this,

Go forth to where the meadow is deep, the field

Of Lerna,—stations of the household flock,

Home of thy father's herds,—go even thither,

That so the eye of Zeus may ease desire."

With such-like dreams the kindly dark for me

Was ever fraught, me miserable; till, ridden,

I gat me heart to open to my father

The visions and the dreams of night. And he

To Pytho, yea and even to Dodona,

Sent embassage on embassage, inquiring

What thing he had need to do, or what word speak,

To pleasure them that rule us. And they came,

Bringing still back burden of wavering lips,

Sentences blind, dark syllables. At last

A word clear-visaged came to Inachos,