the poor girl was carried By the hands of men up to the altar, not that she be married With solemn ceremony, to the accompanying strain Of loud-sung bridal hymns, but as a maiden, pure of stain, To be impurely slaughtered, at the age when she should wed, Sorrowful sacrifice slain at her father’s hand instead. [100] All this for fair and favourable winds to sail the fleet along! – So potent was Religion in persuading to do wrong.
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