Any relenting is there!"

"O my king!

Thee also, in the shackles of those hands,

Not to be shunned, the Goddess grasped! Yet, bear!

Since never wilt thou lead from underground

The dead ones, wail thy worst! If mortals die,—

The very children of immortals, too,

Dropped 'mid our darkness, these decay as sure!

Dear indeed was she while among us: dear,

Now she is dead, must she forever be: