Transcription: Side by side they stood, in two rows, maidens to one side, youths to the other. Side by side, eyes to the ground, lined up on the docks outside of Athens. Six youths and seven maidens. In slow procession, they walked toward the dark ship that would carry them over the sea to Crete. Sailors cried out as they prepared to cast off, their shouts mingling with the youth. the galls. On the beach before the dock, the families of those departing gathered in dumb confusion, uncertain whether their children were really dead or whether there was a terrible mistake, a bad dream, that only one word was nee ...
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