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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
Cries out that other blood shall flow--<br />
His life-blood, his, to pay again<br />
The stern requital of the slain--<br />
Peace to that braggart's vaunting vain,<br />
Who, having heard the chieftain's tale,<br />
Yet boasts of bliss untouched by bale! A loud cry is heard from within.<br />
VOICE OF AGAMEMNON<br />
O I am sped--a deep, a mortal blow.<br />
LEADER<br />
Listen, listen! who is screaming as in mortal agony?<br />
VOICE OF AGAMEMNON<br />
O! O! again, another, another blow!<br />
LEADER<br />
The bloody act is over--I have heard the monarch's cry--<br />
Let us swiftly take some counsel, lest we too be doomed to die.<br />
ONE OF THE CHORUS<br />
'Tis best, I judge, aloud for aid to call,<br />
"Ho! loyal Argives! to the palace, all!"<br />
ANOTHER<br />
Better, I deem, ourselves to bear the aid,<br />
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