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What behoves to do?

Draw thy mantle o'er thine eyes.

Lest I be tainted of their sin?

If o'erlong I seem to tarry,—

What the limit set herein?

Marvel not.

In thine own season render thou the dues divine.

Fair befall this purifying as I would!

Thy prayer is mine.

Lo, and even now I see the strangers pacing forth the fane,

With the adorning of the Goddess, with the lambs,—that by blood-stain