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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
antistrophe 1<br />
Lust drives him on-lust, desperate and wild,<br />
Fate's sin-contriving child-<br />
And cure is none; beyond concealment clear,<br />
Kindles sin's baleful glare.<br />
As an ill coin beneath the wearing touch<br />
Betrays by stain and smutch<br />
Its metal false-such is the sinful wight.<br />
Before, on pinions light,<br />
Fair Pleasure flits, and lures him childlike on,<br />
While home and kin make moan<br />
Beneath the grinding burden of his crime;<br />
Till, in the end of time,<br />
Cast down of heaven, he pours forth fruitless prayer<br />
To powers that will not hear.<br />
And such did Paris come<br />
Unto Atreides' home,<br />
And thence, with sin and shame his welcome to repay,<br />
Ravished the wife away-<br />
strophe 2<br />
And she, unto her country and her kin<br />
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