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Aeschylus, agamemnon LEADER What say'st thou? doubtful heart makes treach'rous ear. CLYTEMNESTRA Hear then again, and plainly-Troy is ours! LEADER Thrills thro' heart such joy as wakens tears. CLYTEMNESTRA Ay, thro' those tears thine eye looks loyalty. LEADER But hast thou proof, to make assurance sure? CLYTEMNESTRA Go to; I have-unless the god has lied. LEADER Hath some night-vision won thee to belief? CLYTEMNESTRA Out on all presage of a slumb'rous soul! LEADER But wert thou cheered by Rumour's wingless word? 20
Aeschylus, agamemnon CLYTEMNESTRA Peace-thou dost chide me as a credulous girl. LEADER Say then, how long ago the city fell? CLYTEMNESTRA Even in this night that now brings forth the dawn. LEADER Yet who so swift could speed the message here? CLYTEMNESTRA From Ida's top Hephaestus, lord of fire, Sent forth his sign; and on, and ever on, Beacon to beacon sped the courier-flame. From Ida to the crag, that Hermes loves, Of Lemnos; thence unto the steep sublime Of Athos, throne of Zeus, the broad blaze flared. Thence, raised aloft to shoot across the sea, The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun, Onward, and reached Macistus' watching heights. There, with no dull delay nor heedless sleep, The watcher sped the tidings on in turn, Until the guard upon Messapius' peak Saw the far flame gleam on Euripus' tide, And from the high-piled heap of withered furze 21
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