Their times of woe determined by the wish
Of them they murder’d on the earth of old:
Whom each five years they see, whene’er they make
Their passage to the Acherusian lake,
And there release may win from pains condoled.
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‘For if the pitying ear of them they slew
Be haply piercèd by their voices spare,
Then are they freed from pain; as are some few;
But, for the most, again they forward fare