In time may 'scape, still maiden undefiled,
My suitor's marriage-bed.
Antistrophe VII
And with a will that meets my will may She,
The unstained child of Zeus, on me look down,
[*]Our Artemis, who guards
The consecrated walls;
And with all strength, though hunted down, uncaught,
May She, the Virgin, me a virgin free,
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