Witness in fine shall be the victim rendered to death-stroke,

Whenas the earthern tomb on lofty tumulus builded

Shall of the stricken maid receive limbs white as the snow-flake.

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Speed ye, the well-spun woof out-drawing, speed ye, O Spindles.

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For when at last shall Fors to weary Achaians her fiat

Deal, of Dardanus-town to burst Neptunian fetters,

Then shall the high-reared tomb stand bathed with Polyxena's life-blood,

Who, as the victim doomed to fall by the double-edged falchion,