But thou, O Earth, and ye, The other Lords of those Beneath the grave that dwell; Grant that the godlike one May come from out your home, The Persians' mighty God, In Susa's palace born; Send him, I pray you, up, The like of whom the soil Of Persia never hid. STROPHE II Dear was our chief, and dear to us his tomb, For dear the life it hides; 650 Aidoneus, O Aidoneus, send him forth, Thou who dost lead the dead to Earth again, *Yea, send Dareios.... What a king was he! ANTISTROPHE II For never did he in war's bloody woe Lose all his warrior-host, But Heaven-taught Counsellor the Persians called him, And Heaven-taught Counsellor in truth he proved, Since he still ruled his hosts of subjects well. STROPHE III Monarch, O ancient monarch, come, oh, come, Come to the summit of sepulchral mound, 660 Lifting thy foot encased In slipper saffron-dyed, And giving to our view Thy royal tiara's crest:[48] Speak, O Dareios, faultless father, speak. ANTISTROPHE III Yea, come, that thou, O Lord, may'st hear the woes, Woes new and strange, our lord has now endured; For on us now has fallen A dark and Stygian mist, Since all the armed youth Has perished utterly; Speak, O Dareios, faultless father, speak. EPODE O thou, whose death thy friends Bewail with many tears, 670 *Why thus, O Lord of lords, *In double error of wild frenzy born, Have all our triremes good Been lost to this our land, Ships that are ships no more, yea, ships no more? _The_ Ghost _of_ DAREIOS _appears on the summit of the mound_ _Dar._ O faithful of the Faithful, ye who were Companions of my youth, ye Persian elders, What troubles is't my country toils beneath? The whole plain groans, cut up and furrowed o'er,[49] And I, beholding now my queen beloved Standing hard by my sepulchre, feared much, 680 And her libations graciously received; But ye wail loud near this my sepulchre, And shouting shrill with cries that raise the dead, Ye call me with your plaints. No easy task Is it to come, for this cause above all, That the great Gods who reign below are apter To seize men than release: yet natheless I, Being great in power among them, now am come. Be quick then, that none blame me as too late;[50] What new dire evils on the Persians weigh? _Chor._ I fear to look on thee, 690 Fear before thee to speak, With all the awe of thee I felt of old.