To seek her gift—the richest, rarest—
That wife most fatal; yet the fairest.
ANTISTROPHE.
A netted deer our country lies:
One sinned; and all partook his ruin!
O fatal, fatal was the hour,
Fatal the contest and the prize
How ill adjudged for my undoing,
When in green Ida’s mountain bower
That awful Three—my bane—contended: