But like a woman stiff beneath her shroud

Lay Helen; till the young child fear'd and wept,

And ran, and to her nurses cried aloud.

Then came the women quickly, and in dread

Gather'd round Helen, but might naught avail

To wake her; moveless as a maiden dead

That Artemis hath slain, yet nowise pale,

She lay; but Aethra did begin the wail,