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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
A graceless gift unto his shade<br />
Such tribute, by his murd'ress paid!<br />
Strive not thus wrongly to atone<br />
The impious deed thy hand hath done.<br />
Ah, who above the god-like chief<br />
Shall weep the tears of loyal grief?<br />
Who speak above his lowly grave<br />
The last sad praises of the brave?<br />
CLYTEMNESTRA chanting<br />
Peace! for such task is none of thine<br />
By me he fell, by me he died,<br />
And now his burial rites be mine!<br />
Yet from these halls no mourners' train<br />
Shall celebrate his obsequies;<br />
Only by Acheron's rolling tide<br />
His child shall spring unto his side,<br />
And in a daughter's loving wise<br />
Shall clasp and kiss him once again!<br />
CHORUS<br />
Lo! sin by sin and sorrow dogg'd by sorrow--<br />
And who the end can know?<br />
The slayer of to-day shall die to-morrow--<br />
The wage of wrong is woe.<br />
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