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ANDROMEDA.
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Under a crag of the stone, where a ledge sloped down to the water;There they set Andromeden, most beautiful, shaped like a goddess, 80Lifting her long white arms wide-spread to the walls of the basalt,Chaining them, ruthless, with brass; and they called on the might of theRulers. 'Mystical fish of the seas, dread Queen whom Æthiops honour,Whelming the land in thy wrath, unavoidable, sharp as the sting-ray,Thou, and thy brother the Sun, brain-smiting, lord of the sheepfold,Scorching the earth all day, and then resting at night in thy bosom,Take ye this one life for many, appeased by the blood of a maiden,Fairest, and born of the fairest, a queen, most priceless of victims.'
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