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Lifting thy foot encased

In slipper saffron-dyed,

And giving to our view

Thy royal tiara's crest:[[48]]

Speak, O Dareios, faultless father, speak.

Antistrophe III

Yea, come, that thou, O Lord, may'st hear the woes,

Woes new and strange, our lord has now endured;

For on us now has fallen