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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
Nought to the heart doth pierce its way.<br />
And, with the joyous, they beguile<br />
Their lips unto a feigned smile,<br />
And force a joy, unfelt the while;<br />
But he who as a shepherd wise<br />
Doth know his flock, can ne'er misread<br />
Truth in the falsehood of his eyes,<br />
Who veils beneath a kindly guise<br />
A lukewarm love in deed.<br />
And thou, our leader-when of yore<br />
Thou badest Greece go forth to war<br />
For Helen's sake-I dare avow<br />
That then I held thee not as now;<br />
That to my vision thou didst seem<br />
Dyed in the hues of disesteem.<br />
I held thee for a pilot ill,<br />
And reckless, of thy proper will,<br />
Endowing others doomed to die<br />
With vain and forced audacity!<br />
Now from my heart, ungrudgingly,<br />
To those that wrought, this word be said-<br />
Well fall the labour ye have sped-<br />
Let time and search, O king, declare<br />
What men within thy city's bound<br />
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