Thrills heart and brain.
But anon she changed: herself fulfilled
Her wedlock’s bitter end;
A fatal sister, a fatal bride,
Her fateful head she rears;
Herself the Erinnys from Jove to avenge
The right of the injured host, and change
The bridal joy to tears.
ANTISTROPHE III.
’Twas said of old, and ’tis said to-day,