PRAXITHEA.
Dark the name and dark the gifts they gave thee, child, in childbirth were,
Sprung from him that rent the womb of earth, a bitter seed to bear,
880 Born with groanings of the ground that gave him way toward heaven's dear air.
Dark the name and dark the gifts they gave thee, child, in childbirth were,
Sprung from him that rent the womb of earth, a bitter seed to bear,
880 Born with groanings of the ground that gave him way toward heaven's dear air.