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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
Me she has died for, she and she alone."
With that, he sought the inmost of the house,He and his dead, to get grave's garniture,While the friends sang the pæan that should peal."Daughter of Pelias, with farewell from me,I' the house of Hades have thy unsunned home!Let Hades know, the dark-haired deity,—And he who sits to row and steer alike,Old corpse-conductor, let him know he bearsOver the Acherontian lake, this time,I' the two-oared boat, the best—oh, best by farOf womankind! For thee, Alkestis Queen!Many a time those haunters of the MuseShall sing thee to the seven-stringed mountain-shell,And glorify in hymns that need no harp,At Sparta when the cycle comes about,And that Karneian month wherein the moon
