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Rh "Phœbus" the watchword is, if need arise:

Remember it, and tell thy Thracian host.

(To the Chorus.) Ye must go forth in front of all our lines:

Watch keenly, and our spy upon the ships,

Dolon, receive; for, if he be unharmed,

By this he draweth nigh the camp of Troy.

(Exeunt Hector and Rhesus.)

Ho, warders, to whom is the next watch given?

Whose warding followeth mine?

For the stars that were high in the evening sky are setting: uprisen ye see

The Pleiads seven: in the midst of heaven the Eagle's broad wings shine.

Ho, comrades, awake from your slumber! Why do ye linger? Hither to me!

Ho ye, ho ye, from your couches leap, for the sentinel-tramp appear!

Do ye see not afar where the silver car of the moon o'er the sea hangs low?

The dayspring cometh—break off your sleep, for the dawning is near, is near.

Lo there in the east where gleameth a star—'tis her harbinger: rouse ye, ho!