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If time can teach, I need not to be told.

Say, prithee, if thou knowest, where we are.

Athens I recognise, but not the spot.

That much we heard from every wayfarer.

Shall I go on and ask about the place?

Yes, daughter, if it be inhabited.

Sure there are habitations; but no need

To leave thee; yonder is a man hard by.

What, moving hitherward and on his way?

Say rather, here already. Ask him straight

The needful questions, for the man is here.

Enter.

O stranger, as I learn from her whose eyes

Must serve both her and me, that thou art here

On timely quest, and so canst solve our doubts—

First quit that seat, then question me at large;

The spot thou treadest on is holy ground.

What is the site, to what god dedicate? 149