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VI.What follow'd, tho' I saw not, yet I heardSo often that I speak as having seen.
For when our side was vanquished and my causeFor ever lost, there went up a great cryThe Prince is slain. My father heard and ranIn on the lists, and there unlaced my casqueAnd grovell'd on my body, and after himCame Psyche, sorrowing for Agläia,
But high upon the palace Ida stoodWith Psyche's babe in arm: there on the roofsLike that great dame of Lapidoth she sang.
'Our enemies have fall'n, have fall'n: the seed