As ravening hounds o’er a gobbet of flesh that wrangle, shall slay

Each one his fellow: thou also in battle-fury shalt fall

On the rout. So the Golden Fleece unto Hellas, if this be all,

From Aia afar shalt thou bear:—O yea, turn thou and depart {1060}

Whithersoever it pleaseth thee: seek the desire of thine heart!’

She spake, and her eyes to the earth at her feet in silence she cast;

And her cheeks divinely fair were wet as her tears fell fast,

As she sorrowed because that far and afar from her side o’er the main

He must wander away. And she looked in his eyes, and she spake yet again

With mournful word, and his right hand now hath she ta’en in her own;