Bitter springs have barren issues; these bedew grief's arid sands.
ATHENIAN HERALD.
Such thank-offerings ask such altars as expect thy suppliant hands.
CHORUS.
Tears for triumph, wail for welfare, what strange godhead's shrine requires?
ATHENIAN HERALD.
Death's or victory's be it, a funeral torch feeds all its festal fires.
CHORUS.
Like a star should burn the beacon flaming from our city's head.