His father’s halls with joy, and welcome

The new friend to his home.

STROPHE III.
Orestes.

If but some Lycian spear, ’neath Ilium’s walls,

Had lowly laid thee,

A mighty name in the Atridan halls

Thou wouldst have made thee!

Then hadst thou pitched thy fortune like a star,

To son and grandson shining from afar;

Beyond the wide-waved sea, the high-heaped mound