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MEDEA.
(A PICTURE BY F. SANDYS).
VENGEANCE, ye Gods! For I am wild with wrong.Zeus, Heré, Ares, ye celestial mates,
And Phoebus, thou, that in the morning's gates
Thronest, invincible of shafts and song,
And Cypris, that, as thou art sweet, art strong,
And ye, ye grim inexorable Fates,
That over Gods and mortals hold your states,
Help me, that have endured too long, too long!
Me of mine enemies but justify,
That have no reverence for the most high Gods,
No thought of justice or the Furies' rods:
Then, ye Immortals, with your fiery cars,
Come, snatch your maiden back unto the stars,
To dwell with you forever in the sky!
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