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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
To flatter them, for truth, with falsehoods fair!<br />
LEADER<br />
Speak joy, if truth be joy, but truth, at worst-<br />
Too plainly, truth and joy are here divorced.<br />
HERALD<br />
The hero and his bark were rapt away<br />
Far from the Grecian fleet; 'tis truth I say.<br />
LEADER<br />
Whether in all men's sight from Ilion borne,<br />
Or from the fleet by stress of weather torn?<br />
HERALD<br />
Full on the mark thy shaft of speech doth light,<br />
And one short word hath told long woes aright.<br />
LEADER<br />
But say, what now of him each comrade saith?<br />
What their forebodings, of his life or death?<br />
HERALD<br />
Ask me no more: the truth is known to none,<br />
Save the earth-fostering, all-surveying Sun.<br />
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