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Aeschylus, agamemnon And drag the deed to light, while drips the blade. ANOTHER Such will is mine, and what thou say'st I say: Swiftly to act! the time brooks no delay. ANOTHER Ay, for tis plain, this prelude of their song Foretells its close in tyranny and wrong. ANOTHER Behold, we tarry--but thy name, Delay, They spurn, and press with sleepless hand to slay. ANOTHER I know not what 'twere well to counsel now-- Who wills to act, 'tis his to counsel how. ANOTHER Thy doubt is mine: for when a man is slain, I have no words to bring his life again. ANOTHER What? e'en for life's sake, bow us to obey These house-defilers and their tyrant sway ? 86
Aeschylus, agamemnon ANOTHER Unmanly doom! 'twere better far to die-- Death is a gentler lord than tyranny. ANOTHER Think well--must cry or sign of woe or pain Fix our conclusion that the chief is slain? ANOTHER Such talk befits us when the deed we see-- Conjecture dwells afar from certainty. LEADER I read one will from many a diverse word, To know aright, how stands it with our lord! The central doors of the palace open, disclosing CLYTEMNESTRA, who comes forward. She has blood smeared upon her forehead. The body of AGAMEMNON lies, muffled in a long robe, within a silver-sided laver; the corpse of CASSANDRA is laid beside him. CLYTEMNESTRA Ho, ye who heard me speak so long and oft The glozing word that led me to my will-- Hear how I shrink not to unsay it all! How else should one who willeth to requite Evil for evil to an enemy 87
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