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196 {|align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-size: smaller" Very fine are her parting advice and injunctions to them all:
 * “||By lot I will not die, for to such death
 * No thanks are due, or glory—name it not.
 * If you accept me, if my offered life
 * Be grateful to you, willingly I give it
 * For these, but by constraint I will not die.”
 * }
 * If you accept me, if my offered life
 * Be grateful to you, willingly I give it
 * For these, but by constraint I will not die.”
 * }
 * Be grateful to you, willingly I give it
 * For these, but by constraint I will not die.”
 * }
 * For these, but by constraint I will not die.”
 * }

Macaria has the clear Minerva eye: Antigone's is deeper, and more capable of emotion, but calm. Iphigenia's, glistening, gleaming with angel truth, or dewy as a hidden violet.

I am sorry that Tennyson, who spoke with such fitness of all the others in his “Dream of fair women,” has not of Iphigenia. Of her alone he has not made a fit picture, but only of the circumstances of the sacrifice. He can never have taken to heart this work of Euripides, yet he was so worthy to feel it. Of Jeptha's daughter, he has spoken as he would of Iphigenia, both in her beautiful song, and when