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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
CHORUS singing<br />
Zeus, Lord of heaven! and welcome night<br />
Of victory, that hast our might<br />
With all the glories crowned!<br />
On towers of Ilion, free no more,<br />
Hast flung the mighty mesh of war,<br />
And closely girt them round,<br />
Till neither warrior may 'scape,<br />
Nor stripling lightly overleap<br />
The trammels as they close, and close,<br />
Till with the grip of doom our foes<br />
In slavery's coil are bound!<br />
Zeus, Lord of hospitality,<br />
In grateful awe I bend to thee-<br />
'Tis thou hast struck the blow!<br />
At Alexander, long ago,<br />
We marked thee bend thy vengeful bow,<br />
But long and warily withhold<br />
The eager shaft, which, uncontrolled<br />
And loosed too soon or launched too high,<br />
Had wandered bloodless through the sky.<br />
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