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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
Helped by another hand!<br />
Ye powers, whose hate<br />
Of Atreus' home no blood can satiate,<br />
Raise the wild cry above the sacrifice abhorred!<br />
CHORUS chanting<br />
Why biddest thou some hend, I know not whom,<br />
Shriek o'er the house? Thine is no cheering word.<br />
Back to my heart in frozen fear I feel<br />
My wanning life-blood run-- The blood that round the wounding steel<br />
Ebbs slow, as sinks life's parting sun--<br />
Swift, swift and sure, some woe comes pressing on.<br />
CASSANDRA chanting<br />
Away, away--keep him away--<br />
The monarch of the herd, the pasture's pride,<br />
Far from his mate! In treach'rous wrath,<br />
Muffling his swarthy horns, with secret scathe<br />
She gores his fenceless side! Hark ! in the brimming bath,<br />
The heavy plash--the dying cry--<br />
Hark--in the laver--hark, he falls by treachery!<br />
CHORUS chanting<br />
I read amiss dark sayings such as thine,<br />
Yet something warns me that they tell of ill,<br />
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