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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
LEADER<br />
How? 'tis the smell of household offerings.<br />
CASSANDRA<br />
'Tis rank as charnel-scent from open graves.<br />
LEADER<br />
Thou canst not mean this scented Syrian nard?<br />
CASSANDRA<br />
Nay, let me pass within to cry aloud<br />
The monarch's fate and mine-- enough of life.<br />
Ah friends!<br />
Bear to me witness, since I fall in death,<br />
That not as birds that shun the bush and scream<br />
I moan in idle terror. This attest<br />
When for my death's revenge another dies,<br />
A woman for a woman, and a man<br />
Falls, for a man ill-wedded to his curse.<br />
Grant me this boon--the last before I die.<br />
LEADER<br />
Brave to the last! I mourn thy doom foreseen.<br />
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