Wrought by a ruthless woman. Was she stung + 

By heavy-handed wrath, to life that sprung + 

When on the altar Iphigeneia lay + 

Beside Euripus’ sea-gorge, far away + 

From her own land? Or was she adultery’s thrall + 

Passion-seduced to sin beneath night’s pall?⁠— + 

For brides new-wedded hatefullest transgression, + 

Not to be hidden, made the world’s possession + 