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ANDROMEDA.
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Ever abide, twyformed, many-handed, terrible, shapeless.Woe to the queen; for the land is defiled, and the people accursed.Take thou her therefore by night, thou ill-starred Cassiopœia, 60Take her with us in the night, when the moon sinks low to the westward;Bind her aloft for a victim, a prey for the gorge of the monster,Far on the sea-girt rock, which is washed by the surges for ever;So may the goddess accept her, and so may the land make atonement,Purged by her blood from its sin: so obey thou the doom of the rulers.' Bitter in soul they went out, Cepheus and Cassiopœia,Bitter in soul; and their hearts whirled round, as the leaves in the eddy.Weak was the queen, and rebelled: but the king, like a shepherd of people,
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