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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
Than one with coin to clink and contemplate.Admetos had his share and might depart,The rest was for her children and herself.(Charopé makes a face: but wait a while!)She saw things plain as Gods do: by one strokeO' the sword that rends the life-long veil away.(Also Euripides saw plain enough:But you and I, Charopé!—you and IWill trust his sight until our own grow clear.)
"Sun, and thou light of day, and heavenly danceO' the fleet cloud-figure!" (so her passion paused,While the awe-stricken husband made his moan,Muttered now this now that inaptitude:"Sun that sees thee and me, a suffering pair,Who did the Gods no wrong whence thou should'st die!")Then, as if, caught up, carried in their course,
