The Argonauts

10 ARGONAUTAE ALCESTIS. Be brave, dear sisters, pluck your courage up! Easy this one condition! All is safe. MEDEA. Haste then! Good luck attend you! When the hunt Returns, how joyful—— FIRST DANAID. Striding vigorous The man renewed grasps Jason in embrace Worthy of Heracles. ALCESTIS. Thanks, thanks, dear queen ! We go, we go! MEDEA. The Goddess be your speed! Thus will the danger pass! That vicious fool Shall cease his plots against my best beloved. No taint of fell complicity shall touch My honour in this matter. I will sleep Through the delicious hours of breezy noon, Lulled by sweet voices of my singing maids ; Secure at least that no one will attempt To wreck my virtue or—restore my youth! CHORUS. O sleep of lazy love, be near In dreams to lift the veil, And silence from the shadowy sphere To conjure in our lady’s ear !—