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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
And I beheld, and those who won the wall<br />
Pass to such issue as the gods ordain?<br />
I too will pass and like them dare to die!<br />
She turns and looks upon the palace door.<br />
Portal of Hades, thus I bid thee hail!<br />
Grant me one boon--a swift and mortal stroke,<br />
That all unwrung by pain, with ebbing blood<br />
Shed forth in quiet death, I close mine eyes.<br />
LEADER<br />
Maid of mysterious woes, mysterious lore,<br />
Long was thy prophecy: but if aright<br />
Thou readest all thy fate, how, thus unscared,<br />
Dost thou approach the altar of thy doom,<br />
As fronts the knife some victim, heaven controlled?<br />
CASSANDRA<br />
Friends, there is no avoidance in delay.<br />
LEADER<br />
Yet who delays the longest, his the gain.<br />
CASSANDRA<br />
The day is come--flight were small gain to me!<br />
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