Was truth fast terrifying tears away?
"Hail, child of Zeus, and sprung from Perseus too!"
The salutation ran without a fault.
"And thou, Admetos, King of Thessaly!"
"Would, as thou wishest me, the grace might fall!
But my good-wisher, that thou art, I know."
"What 's here? these shorn locks, this sad show of thee?"
"I must inter a certain corpse to-day."
"Now, from thy children God avert mischance!"
"They live, my children; all are in the house!"