It were a new example to the point,

That "children of immortals, dropped by stealth

Into our darkness, die as sure as we!"

A case to quote and comfort people with:

But, as for lamentation, ai and pheu,

Right-minded subjects kept them for their lord.

Ay, he it was advancing! In he strode,

And took his stand before Admetos,—turned

Now by despair to such a quietude,

He neither raised his face nor spoke, this time,