song

why have you sought

the whole white world

phaedra

she contrasts with herself hippolyta

she rebukes hippolyta

egypt

helios

prayer

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HYMEN

As from a temple service, tall and dignified, with slow pace, each a queen, the sixteen matrons from the temple of Hera pass before the curtain—a dark purple hung between Ionic columns—of the porch or open hall of a palace. Their hair is bound as the marble hair of the temple Hera. Each wears a crown or diadem of gold.

They sing—the music is temple music, deep, simple, chanting notes:

From the closed garden

Where our feet pace

Back and forth each day,

This gladiolus white,

This red, this purple spray—

Gladiolus tall with dignity

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