14 THE DELPHIAN CHILDREN
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i“Out of glad day, through the fair porch of eve,Our playmates passed into the halls of sleep.I listened long, for the great town to leaveIts noise and watchfulness, and long rest keep.Then faltered forth, to gainThe great god’s awful fane,Scared by each far, lone cry, and the far, con- scious deep. x.“1 shrank before the columns cloaked with shade,And, shuddering, felt a fanning of great wings :I dared not that chill presence to invade,Dim with dread forms of gods and godlikekings.I gasped my childish prayer:I had no garland thereTo offer, as men vow their gifts and glorious things.
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