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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
O dark prophetic speech, Ill tidings dost thou teach<br />
Ever, to mortals here below! Ever some tale of awe and woe<br />
Thro' all thy windings manifold Do we unriddle and unfold!<br />
CASSANDRA chanting<br />
Ah well-a-day! the cup of agony,<br />
Whereof I chant, foams with a draught for me<br />
Ah lord, ah leader, thou hast led me here--<br />
Was't but to die with thee whose doom is near?<br />
CHORUS chanting<br />
Distraught thou art, divinely stirred,<br />
And wailest for thyself a tuneless lay,<br />
As piteous as the ceaseless tale<br />
Wherewith the brown melodious bird<br />
Doth ever Itys! Itys! wail,<br />
Deep-bowered in sorrow, all its little life-time's day!<br />
CASSANDRA chanting<br />
Ah for thy fate, O shrill-voiced nightingale!<br />
Some solace for thy woes did Heaven afford,<br />
Clothed thee with soft brown plumes, and life apart from wail--<br />
But for my death is edged the double-biting sword!<br />
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