Was doomed to wear out.
She perished thus, admonished and reproved
In vain; and even as for a wilful crime
By the just Gods,
Thus, though forewarned, exhorted, and reproved,
She perished; and even as for a wilful crime,
FOOTNOTES:
[A] Wordsworth mentioned in a letter to De Quincey (February 8, 1815) that this stanza was added while the poem was passing through the press.—Ed.
[B] The original MS. of Laodamia, however, contained the finally adopted reading "The oracle." Wordsworth explained to De Quincey (February 8, 1815) that he substituted the phrase "our future course," in case the words should seem to allude to the other answer of the oracle which commanded the sacrifice of Iphigenia.—Ed.