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Part two, Thy son hast gone
my liege in angry, haste fell'st the

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wrath of youth beneath a smart Let
him go vent his fury like a fiend.

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These sisters twain he shall not say
from death, surely thou mean'st not

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to slay them both. I stand
corrected. Only her who touch'd the body,

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And what death is she to die? She shall be taken to some

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desert place by man untrod, and
in a rock hewn cave with food,

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no more than to avoid the taint
that homicide might bring on all the state

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buried alive there, Let her call
in aid the King of death, the

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one god she reveres or learn too
late a lesson learnt at last, tis

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labor lost to reverence the dead.
Love resistless in fight or yield at the

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glance of thine eye. Love will
pillowed all night on a maid as sheep

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dost lie o'er the upland holds shann
mortals not ye to thee mad are thy

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subjets all and ev'n the wisest heart
straight to folly will fall at a touch

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of thy poison'd dart. Thou didst
kindle the strife This faid o kinsman with

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kin by the eyes, O were
winsome wife and the yearning her heart to

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win for as her conselt still enthron'd
with justice above, Thou bendest man to

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thy will o all invincible love,
lo, I myself am borne aside from

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justice. As I view this bride
o sight an I in tears to drown

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antigone so jung so fair. Thus
hurri'down Death's bow'r with the dead to share,

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friends, countrymen, my last farewell, I make my journey's done.

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One last fond, lingering, longing
look I take at the bright sun.

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For death, who put'st a sleep, both young and old, hails my

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young life and beckons me to Acoron's
dark fold, an unwed wife. No

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youths have sung the marriage song for
me my bridal bread. No maids have

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strewn with flowers from the lee tis
death I wed. But bethink thee thou

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art sped great and glorious to the
dead. Thou the sort's edge hast not

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taste it, No deceas'd thy frame
hath waste it freely. Thou alone shalt

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go living to the dead below.
Nay, but the piteous tale I've heard

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men tell of Tantalus, doom'd child
chain'd upon syphilis, high rocky fell that

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clung like ivy wild, drench'd by
the pelting rain and whirling snow. Left

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there to mine, while on her
frozen breast the tears I flow. Her

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fate is mine. She was sprung
of God's divine mortals, We of mortal

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line like, renowned with God's to
gain, recompensest all thy pain. Take

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this so last, thy tomb hers
in life and death, thy doom alack

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halack, ye mock me. Is
it meet thus to insult me, living

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to my face, cease by our
country's alters. I entreat ye, lordly

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rulers of a lordly race, who
fount of dercy would embower'd plain where theban

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chariots to victory's speed, mark ye
the cruel laws that now have wrought my

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bane, the friends who show no
pity in my need. Was ever fate

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like mine? Her monstrous doom within
a rock built prison, sepulcherd to fade

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and wither in a living tomb,
and alien midst the living and the dead.

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In thy boldness overrush madly, thou
thy foot didst dash gain'st thy justice

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althor stare thou a father's gig dost
err at this thou touchest my most poignant

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pain, my ill starred father's piteous
disgrace, the taint of blood, the

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hereditary stain that clings to all of
Labdicus famed race, woe worth, the

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monstrous marriage bed where lay a mother
with the son her womb had borne.

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Therein I was conceiv'd woe worth,
the day fruit of incestuous sheets, a

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maid forlorn, And now I pass, accursed and unwed, to meet them

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as an alien there below. And
thee O brother in marriage ill bestead.

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Twas thy dead hand that dealt me
this death blow really has her chains.

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T is true, let right be
paid when rights are due? Yet is

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it e to disobey the power so
hold by might? The sway thou hast

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withstood authority a safe we grebel,
Thou must die unwept, unwed, unfriended.

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Hence I go no longer May I
see the day's bright eye. Not

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one friend's left to share my bitter
woe, And o'er my ashes heave one

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passing sigh. If wail and lamentation
aught avail'd to stave off death, I

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trow they'd never end away with her, and, having walled her up in

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a rock vaulted tomb, as I
ordain'd leave her alone at liberty to die,

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or, if she choose to live
in solitude, the tomb her dwelling.

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We in either case are guiltless as
concerns this maiden's blood. Only on

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earth, no lodging shall she find. Oh grave, O bridal bower,

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O prison house hewn from the rock, my everlasting home. Whither I go

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to join the mighty host of kinsfolk, perseffic's guests, long dead, the

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last of all of all more miserable, I pass my destined span of years

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cut short. And yet good hope
is mine that I shall find a welcome

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from my sire. Oh welcome too
from thee my mother and my brother dear

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from. With these hands I laved
and dept your limbs in death, and

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poured libations on your grave and last
my poloneses unto THEE. I paid due

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rights, and this my recompense.
Yet am I justified in Wisdom's eyes.

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For even had it been some child
of mine or husband moldering in death's decay,

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I had not wrought this deed despite
the state. What is the law

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I call an aid tis? Thus
I argue, had it been a husband

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dead, I might have wed another
and have borne another child to take the

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dead child's place. But now my
sire and mother both are dead, no

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second brother can be born for me. Thus, by the law of conscience,

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I was led to honor thee dear
brother, and was judged by Creon

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guilty of an heinous crime. And
now he drags me like a criminal,

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a bride unwed, ammerst of marriage, song and marriage bed and joys of

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motherhood, my friends, deserted to
a living grave. What ordinance of Heaven

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have I transgressed? Hereafter? Can
I look to any god for succor call

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on any man for help? Alas
my piety is impious deemed well, if

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such justice is approved of heaven,
I shall be taught by suffering my sin.

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But if the sin is theirs,
O may vay suffer no worse ills

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than the wrongs they do to me. Ungovernable will drives like a gale the

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maiden. Still therefore am I?
Guards who let her stay shall smart full

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sore for their delay. Ah,
woe is me this word I here brings

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death most near. I have no
comfort. What ye saith for tense,

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no other thing than death my fatherland, city of Thebes, divine, ye,

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gods of Thebes. Whence sprang my
line, Look puissant lords of Thebes

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on me the last of all your
royal house, ye see martyred by men

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of sin undone such meade my piety
hath won exit antigony, like to thee

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that maiden bride Dane I in her
brass bunt tower on six chang'd the glad

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sunlight for a sail her bridal bower. And yet she sprang of royal line,

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my child, like thine and nur
the seat by her conceiv'd of zeb's

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descending in a golden show'r strange are
the ways of fate her pow'r nor wealth,

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nor arms wistand nor tow'r nor brass
crowd. Ships that rest the sea

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from fate can flee. Thus,
Drius child, the rash Edonian king,

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for words of high disdain, de
Bacchus to a rocky dungeon, bring to

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cool the madness of a fever'd brain. His frenzy pass'd, he learn'd at

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last twas madness gives against a god
to fling, For once he fain had

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quench'd the Menod's fire, and of
the tuneful nine provok'd the ire by the

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iron rocks that guard the double Man
on the sporus lone strand, where Stretcheth's

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Salmidesov's plain in the wild throught young
land. There on his borders are as

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witness'd the vengeance by a jealous step
paintain the gall that trickl'd from a spindle,

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red the sightless, all its other
step son's twain wasting away. They

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mourn'd their picture's tomb, the blasted
issue of their mother's womb. But she,

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her lineage, could trace to great
erect thev Thrays, daughter of Boreas

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in her sire's vast caves, rear'd
where the tempest raves swift as his horses

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o'er the hills. She sped a
child of gods. Yet she my child,

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like thee by destiny that knows no
death nor age. She too was

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vanquish'd enter Arsius and Boy, princes
of thieves, two wayfarers, as one

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having betwixt us eyes for one we
are here. The blind man cannot move

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without a guide, What tidings old
tyryseus, I will tell thee. And

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when thou hearest, thou must heed
the seer. Thus far I ne'er have

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disobey'd thy read, So hast thou
steer to the ship of state? A

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right I know it, and I
gladly own my debt. Bethink thee that

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thou tread'st once again the razor edge
of peril? What is this? Thy

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words inspire a dread presentiment. The
divination of my art shall tell. Sitting

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upon my throne of augury, as
is my wont, where every fowl of

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heaven thine harborage upon mine ears was
borne a jargon strange of twitterings, hoots

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and screams. So knew I that
each bud at the other tear with bloody

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talons, for the whir of wings
could signify nought else. Perturb'd in soul,

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I straight essay'd the sacrifice by fire
on blazing altars. But the god

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of fire came not in flame,
and from the thigh bones dripped and sputter'd

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in the ashes a foul oos gall
bladders cracked and spatted up, The fat

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melted and fell and left the thigh
bones bar. Such are the signs talked

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by this lad. I read as
I guide others. So the boy guides

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me the frustrate signs of oracles grown
damn, oh king, thy wilful temper

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ails the state. For all our
shrine and altars are profan'd by what has

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filled the bore of dogs and crows, the flesh of itapus unburied sun.

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Therefore the angry gods abominate our litanies
and our burnt offerings. Therefore no birds

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trill out a happy note gorch'd with
the carnival of human gore. Oh,

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ponder this, my son. To
err is common to all men. But

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the man who, having err'd,
hugs not his errors, but repents and

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seeks the cure is not a wastrel, nor unwise no fool. The sword

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goes like the obstinate fool. Let
death disarm thy vengeance, Oh forbear to

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vex the dead. What glory ye
wilt thou win by slaying twice the slain?

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I mean thee well Counsel's most welcome. If I promise, gain old

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man, ye all, let fly
at me your shafts like archers at a

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target. Yea ye set your soothsayer
on me. Peddlers are ye all,

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and I the merchandise ye buy and
sell, go to and make your profit

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where ye will, silver of sardist
change for gold of end. Ye will

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not purchase this man's burial, not
though the winged ministers of Zeus should bear

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him in their talons to his throne. Not e in awe of prodigy,

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so dire would I permit his burial. For I know no human soilure can

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assail the gods. This too,
I know Tyresus dires the fall of craft

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and cunning when it tries to gloss
foul treachery with fair words for filthy gain.

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Alas doth any know and lay to
heart? Is this the prelude to

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some hackneed saw? How far good
counsel is the best of goods, true

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as unwisdom is the worst of ills. Thou art infected with that ill thyself.

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I will not band the insults with
thee seer. And yet thou say'st

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my prophecies of fraughts. Prophets are
all a money getting tribe, and kings

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are all a luca loving race.
Dost know at whom thou glancest me thy

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Lord, Lord of the State and
Savior thanks to me skill'd prophet art Thou,

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but too wrong inclined take heed,
thou wilt provoke me to reveal the

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mystery deep hidden in my breast.
Say on, but see it be not

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said for gain such thou me sink
till now hast judg'd my words. Be

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sure thou wilt not traffic on my
wits. No, then, for sure

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the coursers of the sun, not
many times, shall run their race before

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thou shalt have given the fruit of
thine own loins in quittance of thy murder,

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life for life. For that,
thou hast entomb'd a living soul,

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and sent below a denisan of earth, and wrong'd the nether gods by leaving

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here a corpse, unlaved, unwept, unsepulchred. Herein thou hast no part

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nor in the gods in Heaven,
And thou usurp'st a power not thine.

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For this, the avenging spirits of
heaven and Hell, who dark the steps

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of sin, are on thy trail. What these have suffer'd, thou shalt

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suffer too. And now consider whether
bought by gold high prophesy for yet a

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little while, and sound of lamentation
shall be heard of men and women through

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thy desolate halls, and all thy
neighbor states or leagues, to avenge their

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mangl'd warriors who have found a grave. I the more of wolf or hound

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or winged bird that flying homewards taints
their city's heir. These are the shafts

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that, like a bowman, I
provoked to anger, loosen at thy breast

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unerring and their smart Thou shalt not
shun, oh boy, lead me home

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that he may and his bleed on
younger man and learn to curb his tongue

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with gentler manners than his present mood. Exit tiweesius, my liege, that

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man hath gone for telling woe.
And oh believe me, since these chrissled

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locks were like the raven. Never
have I known the prophets warning to the

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state to fail. I know it
too, and it perplexes me to yield

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his grievous But the obstinate soul that
fights with fate is smitten grievously. Some

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Normania fievs list to good advice.
What should I do? Advise me?

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I will heed go free the maiden
from her rockyr cell and for the unburied

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outlaw bild a tomb. Is that
your counsel, you would have me yield,

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yea king. This instant vengeance of
the gods is swift to overtake the

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impenitent. Ah. What a wrench
it is to sacrifice my heart's resolve.

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But fate is ill to fight.
Go trust not others. Do it quick

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thyself. I go hot foot,
bestir ye one, and all my henchmen

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get ye axes, speed away to
yonder eminence. I too will go for

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all my resolution. This way sways
twas I that bound, I too will

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set her free. Almost I am
persuaded. It is best to keep through

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life the law ordained of old exit
Creon Thou by many names, adored child

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of serves, the god of thunder, of a theban bride, the wonder

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fairy, talious guardian lord in the
deep and bosomed glades of the Eleusinian queen,

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haunt of revelers, men and maids. Dionysus, Thou art seen whereas

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men astrolls his waters, where the
dragon's teeth were sown, where the bacchanals

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thy daughters round thee rome. There
thy home TheBus o Bacchus is thine own

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thee on the two crested rock,
lurid flaming torches sea, where Corisian maidens

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flock thee the springs of Castaly,
thy nieces Pastian ivy, clad by shores

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with cluster'd vineyards, glad there to
thee the hymn rings out, and through

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our streets we thebans shout all hold
to thee, Ibi ibi o as thou

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lov'st this city best of all,
to THEE and to thy mother live in

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stricken in our thye need we call
thou seest, with what the plague our

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towns folk sicken? Thy ready help
we crave, whether adown Parnassian heights descending

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or o'er the roaring straits. Thy
swift was wending. Save us, Oh,

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save brightest of all the orbs that
breathe forth light, authentic son of

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Zev's immortal King, leader of all
the voices of the night, Come,

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and thy train of thiads. We
THEE bring thy maddened brown who danced before

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thee all night long, and shout
thy hand might swee I v I v

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enter messenger attend o ye who dwell
beside the halls of Cadmus and Amphion.

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No man's life as of one Tenor
would I praise or blame for fortune with

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a constant ebb and rise, casts
down and raises high and low alike,

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And none can read immortal's horoscope.
Take creon, he methought, if any

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man was enviable, he had saved
this land of Cadmus from our enemies,

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and attained a mom mark's powers,
and ruled the state supreme, while a

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right noble issue crowned his bliss.
Now all is gone and wasted. For

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a life without life's joys, I
count a living death. He'll tell me

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he has ample store of wealth,
the pomp and circumstance of kings. But

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if these give no pleasure, all
the rest I count the shadow of a

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shade. Nor would I weigh his
wealth and power against a dram of joy?

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What fresh woes bring'st thou to the
royal house? Both dead and they

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who live deserve to die? Who
is the slayer? Who the victim?

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Speak? Ayman? His blood shed
by no stranger hand? What mean ye

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by his father's or his own?
His own? In anger for his father's

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crime? Oh prophet, What thou
spakest comes to pass. So stands the

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case. Now tis for you to
act. No. From the palace gates

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I see approaching cray unhappy wife.
Every dacher comes, she by chance or

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learning her son's fate. Enter uridity, ye, men of thebes. I

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overheard your talk as I passed out
to offer up my prayer to palace,

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and was drawing back the bar to
open wide the door. Upon my ears,

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there broke a wail that told of
household woe. Stricken with terror in

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my handmaid's arms, I fell and
fainted. But repeat your tale to one

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not unacquaint with misery, dear mistress. I was there, and will relate

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the perfect truth, omitting not one
word. Why should we glows and flatter

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to be proved liars? Hereafter?
Truth is ever best well in attendance on

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my liege, your lord, I
crossed the plain to its utmost margin,

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where the course of Polynesius Non and
mauld was lying. Yet we offered first

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a prayer to Pluto and the Goddess
of cross ways, with contrite hearts to

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deprea hate their ire. Then laved
with lustral waves the mangled course, laid

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it on fresh lopped branches, lit
a pyre, and to his memory piled

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a mighty mound of mother earth.
Then to the caverned rock, the bridal

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chamber of the maid and death,
we sped about to enter, but a

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guard heard from that godless shrine a
far shrill wail, and ran back to

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our lord to tell the news.
But as he nearer drew, a hollow

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sound of lamentation to the king was
born. He groaned and uttered, Then

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this bitter plaint, am I a
prophet, miserable me? Is this the

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saddest path I ever trod? Tis
my son's voice that calls me on,

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Press on my henchman, haste with
double speed to the tomb, where rocks

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down torn have made a gap.
Look in and tell me if in truth

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I recognized the voice of Hayman,
or am heaven deceived? So at the

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bidding of our distraught lord, we
looked, and in the cavern's vaulted gloom,

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I saw the maiden lying strangled.
There a noose of linen twined about

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her neck, and hard beside her, clasping her cold form. Her lover

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lay, bewailing his dead bride,
death wedded, and his father's cruelty.

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When the king saw him with a
terrible groan. He moved towards him,

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crying, O, my son,
what hast thou done? What ailed thee?

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What mischance has reft thee of thy
reason? Oh, come forth,

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come forth, my son, Thy
father supplicates. But the son glared at

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him with tiger eyes, spat in
his face, and then, without a

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word, drew his two hilted sword
and smote, but missed his father,

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flying backwards. Then the boy,
wroth with himself, poor wretch, incuntinent,

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fell on his sword and drove it
through his side home. But yet

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breathing, clasped in his lax arms, the maid her pallid cheek incarnadined with

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his expiring gasps. So there they
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His marriage rights are consummated in the
halls of death, A witness that of

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ills whate'er befall mortals. Unwisdom is
the worst of all, exit euridicy,

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What makest thou of this? The
queen has gone without a word, importing

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good or ill I marvel too,
but entertain good. Hope tis that she

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shrinks in public to lament her son's
sad ending, and in privacy would with

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her maidens mourn a private loss.
Trust me. She is discreet and will

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not err I know not, but
strange silence, so I deem, is

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no less ominous than excessive grief.
Well led us to the house and solve

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our doubts. Whether the tumult of
her heart conceals some fell design, it

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may be thou art right. Unnatural
silence signifies no good lo the king himself

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appears evidence. He with him bears
gainst himself army. I quake gainst a

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king such charge to make, but
almost own that guilt is his and his

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alone. Woe for sin of minds, perverse, deadly, fraught with mortal

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curse. Behold us slain and slayers, all akin woe for my counsel,

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dire conceiv'd in sin alas my son
life scarce begun, Thou hast undone.

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The fault was mine mine only O
my son too late. Thou seemest to

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perceive the truth by sorrow school'd heavy
the hand of God, thorny and rough

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the paths my feet have trod,
humbled my pride, my pleasure turn'd to

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pain, poor mortals, How we
labor all in vain, enter second messenger,

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sorrow saw thine, my Lord and
more to come, one lying at

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thy feet. Another, yet more
grievous waits THEE when thou comest home.

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What woe is lacking to my tale
of woes? Thy wife, the mother

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of thy dead son, here lie
stricken by a fresh inflicted blow. How

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bottomless the pit dost claim me too? O? Death? What is this

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word? He saith, this woeful
messenger say? Is it fit to slay

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anew a man already slain? Is
death at work again? Stroke upon stroke?

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First son, then mother slain?
Look for thyself she lies for all

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to you alas another added woe.
I see what more remains to crown my

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agony? A minute past I clasp'd
a lifeless son, and now another victim.

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Death has won unhappy mother, most
un happy son. Beside the altar,

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on a keen aged sword, she
fell and closed her eyes in night,

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but erst she mourned for Megarevs,
who nobly died long since, then

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for her son. With her last
breath she cursed THEE, the slayerer of

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her child. I shudder with a
fright, or for a two edged sword

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to slay outright a wretch like me
made one with misery? Tis true that

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thou wert charg'd by the dead queen
as author of both deaths hers and her

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sons. In what wise was her
self destruction Wrought hearing the loud lament above

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her son, with her own hand, she stabbed herself to the heart.

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I am the guilty cause I did
the deed, thy murderer, yea,

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I guilty. Plead my henchmen,
lead me hence away away a cipher less

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than nothing. No delay, well
said, if in disaster all diswell is

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past endure, demand the speed is
ture, Come fate, a friend at

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need. Come with all speed,
Come my best friend, and speed my

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end away away. Let me not
look upon another day. This for the

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morrow to us, our present needs
that they whom it concerns, must take

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in hand. I join your prayer
that echoes my desire. Oh pray not

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prayers are idle from the doom,
a fate for mortus refuge is there none

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away with me, A worthless wretch
who slew unwitting thee my son, thy

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mother too whither to turn. I
know not every way leads but astray,

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And on my head I feel the
heavy weight of crushing fate of happiness.

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The chiefest part is a wise heart, and to defraud the gods. In

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aught with parrods, fraud swelling words
of high flown might mightily the gods to

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smite chastismant for errors. Past wisdom
brings to age at last end Apart two.

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End of Antigony by Sophocles