So happ’d it now; for they who fail’d to cheer
Grew sad themselves, and in that palace drear
Increased the evil that they came to mend.
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And them the unhappy father sent to seek
Where Psyche had been left, if they might find
What monster held her on the savage peak;
Or if she there had died of hunger pined,
And, by wild eagles stript, her scatter’d bones
Might still be gather’d from the barren stones;