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Yes, thou shalt know me. Now conclude the tale

Of which thy brother only told me half

Relate their end, who coming home from Troy,

On their own threshold met a doom severe

And most unlook'd for. Young I was in sooth

When first conducted to this foreign shore,

Yet well I recollect the timid glance

Of wonder and amazement which I cast

On those heroic forms. When they went forth

It seem'd as though Olympus had sent down

The glorious figures of a bygone world,

To frighten Ilion; and above them all,

Great Agamemnon tower'd preeminent!

Oh, tell me! Fell the hero in his home,

Through Clytemnestra's and Ægisthus' wiles?