And blaming first the gods for her disease,
He purposed to their oracle to go
To question how he might their wrath appease,
Or, if that might not be, the worst to hear,—
Which is the last poor hope of them that fear.—
So he took his ship upon the northern seas,
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And journeying to the shrine of Delphi went,
The temple of Apollo Pythian,
Where when the god he question’d if ’twas meant