பதிப்பு : மனோன்மணியம் - நாடகம்
'And, following ancient custom with the Scyths,
He unto whom my daughther, with free choice,
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The wine cup brimming gives,
Shall take my blessing and go hence her husband.
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'But since, for guide and leader of the few
That for such service are most keen and apt,
The man in war most tried,
And with the Nomads most esteemed, is Seuthes,
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Him to thy skilled instructions and full trust
Will I send straight.
Meanwhile go seek my child,
And, as to her all thought
Of her own safety in mine hour of peril
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Will in itself be hateful, use the force
That dwells on sacred lips with blandest art;
Say that her presence here
Palsies mine arm and dulls my brain with terror;
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That mine own safety I consult in hers,
And let her hopeful think, that, tho' we part,
The same road opes for both;
And if walls fail me, hers will be my refuge.
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Omartes spoke, and of his stalwart chiefs
'Selecting all the bravest yet unwived,
He bade them to his board
The following night, on matters of grave import;
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To Seuthes then the secret he disclosed,
And Seuthes sought the hiefarch, conned the elite. And third the darksome maze
To either issue, sepulchre and palace;
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And thus instructed, treasu're, town, and king Thus in his hands for bargain with the foe The treason schemed of yore,
Foiled when the Mede rejected Scythian nuptials,
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