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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
Were loyal to the kingdom's care,<br />
And who were faithless found.<br />
AGAMEMNON still standing in the chariot<br />
First, as is meet, a king's All-hail be said<br />
To Argos, and the gods that guard the land-<br />
Gods who with me availed to speed us home,<br />
With me availed to wring from Priam's town<br />
The due of justice. In the court of heaven<br />
The gods in conclave sat and judged the cause,<br />
Not from a pleader's tongue, and at the close,<br />
Unanimous into the urn of doom<br />
This sentence gave, On Ilion and her men,<br />
Death: and where hope drew nigh to pardon's urn<br />
No hand there was to cast a vote therein.<br />
And still the smoke of fallen Ilion<br />
Rises in sight of all men, and the flame<br />
Of Ate's hecatomb is living yet,<br />
And where the towers in dusty ashes sink,<br />
Rise the rich fumes of pomp and wealth consumed<br />
For this must all men pay unto the gods<br />
The meed of mindful hearts and gratitude:<br />
For by our hands the meshes of revenge<br />
Closed on the prey, and for one woman's sake<br />
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