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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
Storm out your threats, yet knowing this for sooth,<br />
That I am ready, if your hand prevail<br />
As mine now doth, to bow beneath your sway:<br />
If God say nay, it shall be yours to learn<br />
By chastisement a late humility.<br />
CHORUS chanting<br />
Bold is thy craft, and proud<br />
Thy confidence, thy vaunting loud;<br />
Thy soul, that chose a murd'ress' fate,<br />
Is all with blood elate--<br />
Maddened to know<br />
The blood not yet avenged, the damn'ed spot<br />
Crimson upon thy brow.<br />
But Fate prepares for thee thy lot--<br />
Smitten as thou didst smite, without a friend,<br />
To meet thine end!<br />
CLYTEMNESTRA<br />
Hear then the sanction of the oath I swear--<br />
By the great vengeance for my murdered child,<br />
By Ate, by the Fury unto whom<br />
This man lies sacrificed by hand of mine,<br />
I do not look to tread the hall of Fear,<br />
While in this hearth and home of mine there burns<br />
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