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134<br />

SOPHOCLES IN LONDON<br />

Scholars will have to bring strong arguments<br />

to justify what is an obvious literary blemish<br />

in the distribution of the concluding lines.<br />

Somehow or other, between Hyllus and the<br />

chorus, the sombre intensity of the complaint<br />

was allowed to evaporate. The words,<br />

and<br />

TO. Se vvv eorTarr' oiKTpa fjif<br />

aia-^pa<br />

0< / M ^<br />

Kovoev TOVTU>V o ri fJL>]<br />

should come from the same lips, surely.<br />

Providence, I will not praise,<br />

Neither for fear, nor joy of gain,<br />

Your blundering and cruel ways.<br />

* * * *<br />

And all men's miserable days,<br />

And all the ugliness and pain,<br />

O Providence, I will not praise.

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