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Infants who perished at their own kin's hands,

Their palms filled full with meat of their own flesh,

Loom on my sight, the heart and entrails bearing,

(A sorry burden that!) on which of old

Their father fed.[[368]] And in revenge for this,

I say a lion, dwelling in his lair,

With not a spark of courage, stay-at-home,

Plots 'gainst my master, now he's home returned,

(Yes mine—for still I must the slave's yoke bear;)