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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
And drag the deed to light, while drips the blade.<br />
ANOTHER<br />
Such will is mine, and what thou say'st I say:<br />
Swiftly to act! the time brooks no delay.<br />
ANOTHER<br />
Ay, for tis plain, this prelude of their song<br />
Foretells its close in tyranny and wrong.<br />
ANOTHER<br />
Behold, we tarry--but thy name, Delay,<br />
They spurn, and press with sleepless hand to slay.<br />
ANOTHER<br />
I know not what 'twere well to counsel now--<br />
Who wills to act, 'tis his to counsel how.<br />
ANOTHER<br />
Thy doubt is mine: for when a man is slain,<br />
I have no words to bring his life again.<br />
ANOTHER<br />
What? e'en for life's sake, bow us to obey<br />
These house-defilers and their tyrant sway ?<br />
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