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Gone are the two youths, vanished clean from sight,

Gone, by the plots of Agamemnon's child,

Fleeing from this land, taking with them hence

The holy statue in a Greek ship's hold.

Thy tale is past belief!—but the land's king,

Whom thou wouldst see, hath hurried forth the fane.

Whither?—for what is done he needs must know.

We know not: go thou, hasten after him,

And, where thou findest him, make thy report.

Lo now, how treacherous is womankind!

Ye also are partakers in this deed.

Art mad? What is to us the strangers' flight?

Away with all speed to thy master's gates.

Nay, not till I be certified of this,

Whether the land's lord be within or no.

What ho!—within there!—shoot the door-bolts back,

And to your master tell that at the gates

Am I, who bear a burden of ill-news.