[*]By their own kin struck down,

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That one might hear far off,

Untried by woes like this,

The fate that brings inevitable death.

Chor. Of blessings more than golden, O my child,

Greater than greatest fortune, or the bliss

Of those beyond the North[[425]] thou speakest now;

For this is in thy grasp;

But hold; e'en now this thud of double scourge[[426]]