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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />

CLYTEMNESTRA chanting<br />

My guilt thou harpest, o'er and o'er!<br />

I bid thee reckon me no more<br />

As Agamemnon's spouse.<br />

The old Avenger, stern of mood<br />

For Atreus and his feast of blood,<br />

Hath struck the lord of Atreus' house,<br />

And in the semblance of his wife<br />

The king hath slain.--<br />

Yea, for the murdered children's life,<br />

A chieftain's in requital ta'en.<br />

antistrophe 2<br />

CHORUS<br />

Thou guiltless of this murder, thou!<br />

Who dares such thought avow?<br />

Yet it may be, wroth for the parent's deed,<br />

The fiend hath holpen thee to slay the son.<br />

Dark Ares, god of death, is pressing on<br />

Thro' streams of blood by kindred shed,<br />

Exacting the accompt for children dead,<br />

For clotted blood, for flesh on which their sire did feed.<br />

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