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Undone!—undone!—O child, these vultures twain

Will clutch thee and will slay! He that is named

Thy father, yet in Delphi lingereth.

I ween thou shouldst not fare so evilly

If he were here: but friendless art thou now.

Of Peleus' coming is there not a word?

Too old is he to help thee, were he here.

Yet did I send for him not once nor twice.

Ah, dost thou think their messengers heed thee?

How should they?—Wilt thou be my messenger?

But how excuse long absence from the halls?