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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
CASSANDRA<br />
Yea--prophetess to Troy of all her doom.<br />
LEADER<br />
How left thee then Apollo's wrath unscathed?<br />
CASSANDRA<br />
I, false to him, seemed prophet false to all.<br />
LEADER<br />
Not so--to us at least thy words seem sooth.<br />
CASSANDRA<br />
Woe for me, woe! Again the agony--<br />
Dread pain that sees the future all too well<br />
With ghastly preludes whirls and racks my soul.<br />
Behold ye--yonder on the palace roof<br />
The spectre-children sitting--look, such things<br />
As dreams are made on, phantoms as of babes,<br />
Horrible shadows, that a kinsman's hand<br />
Hath marked with murder, and their arms are full--<br />
A rueful burden--see, they hold them up,<br />
The entrails upon which their father fed!<br />
For this, for this, I say there plots revenge<br />
A coward lion, couching in the lair--<br />
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