"... “Go, gentle heart and mild, “Go to thy dark-robed mother, fair of mien, “Nor grieve beyond all grief. For say, dear child, “What fault in me, thy deathless spouse, is seen, “Peer of the Powers whose home is in the sky, “Brother of Zeus, the eternal sire, am I! “There shalt thou come, and mid the shadowy throng, “Thy sceptre sway o’er all that live and move, “Sharing the rites and honours that belong “To the immortal gods enthroned above, “And all who injure thee, or do thee wrong, “Shall thro’ long years the avenging Power reprove,— “Yea, all who bring no gifts to grace thy shrine, “Nor soothe with hallowed forms thy Might divine.”"
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