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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
And the garb sable; else no outward sign Of sorrow as he came and faced his friend.Was truth fast terrifying tears away?"Hail, child of Zeus, and sprung from Perseus too!"The salutation ran without a fault.
"And thou, Admetos, King of Thessaly!"
"Would, as thou wishest me, the grace might fall!But my good-wisher, that thou art, I know."
"What's here? these shorn locks, this sad show of thee?"
"I must inter a certain corpse to-day."
"Now, from thy children God avert mischance!"
"They live, my children; all are in the house!"
