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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
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Rises and never sets the whole night through:So too at splendid and magnificentAthenai. Such the spread of thy renown,And such the lay that, dying, thou hast leftSinger and sayer. O that I availedOf my own might to send thee once againFrom Hades' hall, Kokutos' stream, by helpO' the oar that dips the river, back to day!"
So, the song sank to prattle in her praise:"Light, from above thee, lady, fall the earth,Thou only one of womankind to die,Wife for her husband! If Admetos takeAnything to him like a second spouse—Hate from his offspring and from us shall beHis portion, let the king assure himself!No mind his mother had to hide in earthHer body for her son's sake, nor his sire
