Crossword-Solution: AGATH 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

This sort of emulation, says Hesiod, is honourable, [Greek: Agathê d' eris esti Brotoisin]--when we combat for victory with a hero, and are not without glory even in our overthrow.

The mad monkish lover of the dead nun Agathé has hit on precisely the sort of fantasy which was about to inspire Théophile Gautier's _Comédie de la Mort_, or the later author of _Gaspard de la Nuit_, or Edgar Poe.

She took the dreary veil, A hopeless girl! and the bright flush grew pale Upon her cheek: she felt, as summer feels The winds of autumn and the winter chills, That darken his fair suns.--It was away, Feeding on dreams, the heart of Agathè! The vesper prayers were said, and the last hymn Sung to the Holy Virgin.

One weary day, And Julio saw not his loved Agathè; She was not in the choir of sisterhood That sang the evening anthem, and he stood Like one that listen'd breathlessly awhile; But stranger voices chanted through the aisle.

And the next vesper toll'd; nor yet, nor yet-- "Can Agathè be faithless, and forget?" It was the third sad eve, he heard it said, "Poor Julio! thy Agathè is dead," And started.