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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
"Admetos,—how things go with me thou seest,—I wish to tell thee, ere I die, what thingsI will should follow. I—to honour thee,Secure for thee, by my own soul's exchange,Continued looking on the daylight here—Die for thee—yet, if so I pleased, might live,Nay, wed what man of Thessaly I would,And dwell i' the dome with pomp and queenliness.I would not,—would not live bereft of thee,With children orphaned, neither shrank at all,Though having gifts of youth wherein I joyed.Yet, who begot thee and who gave thee birth,Both of these gave thee up; for all, a termOf life was reached when death became them well,Ay, well—to save their child and glorious die:Since thou wast all they had, nor hope remainedOf having other children in thy place.So, I and thou had lived out our full time,
