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O Hades! O false gods! false to yourselves!

O Hades, 'twas thy brother gave her thee

Without a mother's sanction or her knowledge!

Thou bor'st her to the dreadful gulfs below,

And made her queen, a shadowy queen of shades,

Queen of the fiery flood and iron realms,

Eternal torture and eternal pain.

On blossomed plains in Far Trinacria