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_The Chorus_ break off their Processional Chant [_keeping the same
rhythm_] to enquire what is the meaning of these solemn rites, and
whether the Queen can solve their doubt, which wavers between hope and
foreboding:
_The Queen signifying, by a gesture, that the Ritual must not be
interrupted by speech, the Chorus proceed to take their regular position
round the Thymele, and address themselves to their_ {104}
PRELUDE
_the Music, Poetry, and Gesture-dance changing from a March to a highly
Lyrical rhythm; the evolutions of the Dance taking Right and Left hand
directions, but without the Chorus quitting their position round the
Altar_.[1]
_Strophe: during which the evolutions take a Right Hand direction._
_The Chorus_ resume: though shut out from War their old age has still
suasive power of song, and they can tell of the famous omen seen by the
two kings and the whole army as they waited to embark: two eagles on the
left devouring a pregnant hare:
Sing a strain of woe
But may the good prevail! {120}
_Antistrophe: the same rhythm line for line as the Strophe, but the
evolutions taking Left Hand direction.
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