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Hast vanquished?—overcome thy Thracian guest,

Lady?—hast done the deed thou threatenedst?

Him shalt thou straightway see before the tents,

Blind, pacing with blind aimless-stumbling feet,

And his two children's corpses, whom I slew

With Trojan heroines' help: now hath he paid me

The vengeance-dues. There comes he forth, thou seest.

I from his path will step; the seething rage

Of yonder Thracian monster will I shun.

Enter Polymestor.

Ah me, whitherward shall I go?—where stand?

Where find me a mooring-place?

Must I prowl on their track with foot and with hand

As a mountain-beast should pace?

Or to this side or that shall I turn me, for vengeance pursuing

The slaughterous hags of Troy which have wrought mine undoing?

Foul daughters of Phrygia, murderesses

Accursèd, in what deep-hidden recesses

Are ye cowering in flight?

O couldst thou but heal these eye-pits gory—

O couldst thou but heal the blind, and restore me,

O Sun, thy light!

Hist—hist—their stealthy footfalls creep—

I hear them—whither shall this foot leap,

That their flesh and their bones I may gorge, and may slake me