Had faith therein to, full-face, fling the same—

Sudden, the ice-thaw! The assembled foe,

Heaving and swaying with strange friendliness,

Cried, "Reverence Elektra!"—cried, "Abstain

Like that chaste Herdsman, nor dare violate

The sanctity of such reverse! Let stand

Athenai!"

Mindful of that story's close,

Perchance, and how,—when he, the Herdsman chaste,

Needs apprehend no break of tranquil sleep,—