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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
For life is weary, now my lord is slain,<br />
The gracious among kings!<br />
Hard fate of old he bore and many grievous things,<br />
And for a woman's sake, on Ilian land--<br />
Now is his life hewn down, and by a woman's hand.<br />
O Helen, O infatuate soul,<br />
Who bad'st the tides of battle roll,<br />
O'erwhelming thousands, life on life,<br />
'Neath Ilion's wall!<br />
And now lies dead the lord of all.<br />
The blossom of thy storied sin<br />
Bears blood's inexpiable stain,<br />
O thou that erst, these halls within,<br />
Wert unto all a rock of strife,<br />
A husband's bane!<br />
CLYTEMNESTRA chanting<br />
Peace! pray not thou for death as though<br />
Thine heart was whelmed beneath this woe,<br />
Nor turn thy wrath aside to ban<br />
The name of Helen, nor recall<br />
How she, one bane of many a man,<br />
Sent down to death the Danaan lords,<br />
To sleep at Troy the sleep of swords,<br />
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