Of curse to Argos.

STROPHE V.

And as they led the maid, her saffron robe[n26]

Sweeping the ground, with pity-moving dart

She smote each from her eye,

Even as a picture beautiful, fain to speak,

But could not. Well that voice they knew of yore;

Oft at her father’s festive board,

With gallant banqueters ringed cheerly round,

The virgin strain they heard[n27]