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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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