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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
And wrought the woe that shattered all.<br />
antistrophe 1<br />
CHORUS<br />
Fiend of the race! that swoopest fell<br />
Upon the double stock of Tantalus,<br />
Lording it o'er me by a woman's will,<br />
Stern, manful, and imperious--<br />
A bitter sway to me!<br />
Thy very form I see,<br />
Like some grim raven, perched upon thc slain,<br />
Exulting o'er the crime, aloud, in tuneless strain!<br />
CLYTEMNESTRA chanting<br />
Right was that word--thou namest well<br />
The brooding race-fiend, triply fell!<br />
From him it is that murder's thirst,<br />
Blood-lapping, inwardly is nursed--<br />
Ere time the ancient scar can sain,<br />
New blood comes welling forth again.<br />
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