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Which a maid, as she draweth her newly-woven curtain’s fold,

Beholdeth, as over her dwelling upward it floateth fair;

And it charmeth her eyes, flashing out of the depths of the darkling air

Flushed with a crimson glory: the maid’s heart leapeth then

Lovesick for the youth who is far away amid alien men,

Her betrothed, unto whom her parents shall wed her on some glad day:{780}

So as a star was the hero treading the cityward way.

So when he had passed through the gates, and within the city he came,

The women thereof thronged after, and wafted him blithe acclaim,

Having joy of the stranger: but earthward ever his eyes he cast,

Pacing unfaltering on till he came to the palace at last

Of Hypsipylê: then at the hero’s appearing the maids flung wide

The gates and the fair-fashioned boards of the leaves on either side.

Then through the beautiful hall did Iphinoê lead on

Swiftly, and caused him to sit on a tinsel-glittering throne

Facing the Queen; and Hypsipylê turned her eyes away,{790}

For the maiden blood flushed hot in her cheek. But her shame that day