Stasimon 2
Those who honoured with noisy throat
The honour of the bride, the hymenseal note
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Which did the kinsfolk then to singing urge.
But, learning a new hymn for that which was,
The ancient city of Priamos
Groans probably a great and general dirge,
The man that miserably marries: —
She who, all the while before,
A life, that was a general dirge
For citizens’ unhappy slaughter, bore.
And thus a man, by no milk’s help,
Within his household reared a lion’s whelp
In life’s first festal stage:
A true child-lover, and, to men of age,
A thing whereat pride warms;
And oft he had it in his arms
Like any new-born babe, bright-faced, to hand
