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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
LEADER<br />
Deviser and device are dark to me.<br />
CASSANDRA<br />
Dark! all too well I speak the Grecian tongue.<br />
LEADER<br />
Ay--but in thine, as in Apollo's strains,<br />
Familiar is the tongue, but dark the thought.<br />
CASSANDRA<br />
Ah, ah the fire! it waxes, nears me now--<br />
Woe, woe for me, Apollo of the dawn!<br />
Lo, how the woman-thing, the lioness<br />
Couched with the wolf--her noble mate afar--<br />
Will slay me, slave forlorn! Yea, like some witch,<br />
She drugs the cup of wrath, that slays her lord,<br />
With double death--his recompense for me!<br />
Ay, 'tis for me, the prey he bore from Troy,<br />
That she hath sworn his death, and edged the steel!<br />
Ye wands, ye wreaths that cling around my neck,<br />
Ye showed me prophetess yet scorned of all--<br />
I stamp you into death, or e'er I die--<br />
Down, to destruction! Thus I stand revenged--<br />
Go, crown some other with a prophet's woe.<br />
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