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How say'st thou?—Ha, even then ye gave me welcome?

For shame he could not thrust thee from these doors.

O hapless! what a helpmeet hast thou lost!

We have all perished, and not she alone.

I felt it, when I saw his tear-drowned eyes,

His shaven hair, and face: yet he prevailed,

Saying he bare a stranger-friend to burial.

I passed this threshold in mine heart's despite,

And drank in halls of him that loves the guest,

When thus his plight!—And am I revelling

With head wreath-decked?—That thou should'st ne'er have told,

When such affliction lay upon the home!

Where doth he bury her? Where shall I find her?

By the straight path that leads Larissa-wards

Shalt see the hewn-stone tomb without the walls.

O much-enduring heart and soul of mine,

Now show what son the Lady of Tiryns bare,

Elektryon's child Alkmênê, unto Zeus.