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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of The Back Eye. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Tony Addison. The Back Eye by Euripides, translated by
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  Speaker 1: Gilbert Murray. The background represents the front of the castle
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  Speaker 1: of Pentheus, King of Thebes. At one side is visible
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  Speaker 1: the sacred tomb of Semele, a little enclosure overgrown with
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  Speaker 1: wild vines, with a cleft in the rocky floor of it,
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  Speaker 1: from which there issues at times steam or smoke. The
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  Speaker 1: god Dionysus is discover'd alone, Dionysus, Behold, God's son is
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  Speaker 1: come unto.
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  Speaker 2: This land of Thebes.
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  Speaker 1: Even I Dionysus, whom the brand of Heaven's hot splendor.
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  Speaker 3: Lit alike when she who bore.
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  Speaker 1: Me Cadmus daughter Semele, died here, so chang'd in shape
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  Speaker 1: from God to man. I walk again by Dursa's streams,
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  Speaker 1: and scan is Manus short. Thereby the castle's side I
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  Speaker 1: see her placed, the tomb of the Lightning's bride, the
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  Speaker 1: wreck of smoldering chambers, and the great faint wreaths of
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  Speaker 1: fire undying.
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  Speaker 3: As the hate dies, not that hera held for semeleg.
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  Speaker 1: Ay Cadmus hath done well in purity. He keeps this
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  Speaker 1: place apart in violate his daughter's sanctuary. And I have
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  Speaker 1: set my green, un clustered vines de rbit round. Far
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  Speaker 1: now behind me lies the golden ground of Lydian and
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  Speaker 1: of Phrygian. Far away the wide hot plains, where Persian's
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  Speaker 1: sunbeams plague.
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  Speaker 3: The Bactrian war holds, and the.
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  Speaker 1: Storm oppress'd climb of the mead and araby the blest
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  Speaker 1: and Asia, All that by the salt sea lies in
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  Speaker 1: proud and battled cities motley wise of Hellene and Barbarian interwrought.
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  Speaker 1: And now I come to Hellas, having taught all the
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  Speaker 1: world else my dancers and my right of mysteries to
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  Speaker 1: show me in men's sight manifest God, and first of
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  Speaker 1: helen lands, I cried, thus thebes to waken, set her
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  Speaker 1: hands to clasp my wand mine ivied javelin, and round
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  Speaker 1: her shoulders hang my wild fawn skin. For they have
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  Speaker 1: scorn'd me whom at least beseem'd. So Meli's sisters mocked
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  Speaker 1: my birth, nor deem'd that Dionysus sprang from Dian's sed.
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  Speaker 1: My mother sin said they, and in her need, with
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  Speaker 1: Cadmus plotting, cloak'd her human shame with the dread name
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  Speaker 1: of Zeus. For that the flame from heaven consum'd it.
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  Speaker 1: Seeing she lied to God. Thus must they want and
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  Speaker 1: therefore out my rod on them first fallen and stung
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  Speaker 1: them forth wild eye from empty chambers the bare mountain
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  Speaker 1: side dismayed their home, and all their hearts are flame. Yea,
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  Speaker 1: I have bound upon the necks of them the harness
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  Speaker 1: of my rights, and with them all the seed of womankind.
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  Speaker 1: From huttoned hall of Thiebes. Hath this my magic goaded out,
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  Speaker 1: And there, with the old king's daughters in a rout confus'd,
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  Speaker 1: they make their dwelling place between the roofless rocks and
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  Speaker 1: shadow pine trees green. Thus shall this thieves her sorcer
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  Speaker 1: ert smart learn and forget not till she crave her
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  Speaker 1: part in mine adoring. Thus must I speak clear to
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  Speaker 1: save my mother's fame and crown me here as true
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  Speaker 1: God born by semele to Zeus now capd must yieldeth
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  Speaker 1: up his throne and use of royal honor to his
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  Speaker 1: daughter's son, Pentheus, who on my body hath begun a
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  Speaker 1: war with God. He thrusteth me away from you drink offering,
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  Speaker 1: and when men pray my name entreats not. Therefore on
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  Speaker 1: his own head and his people's shall my power be shown?
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  Speaker 1: Then to another land, when all things here are well?
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  Speaker 1: Must I fell onward, making clear my godheads might. But
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  Speaker 1: should this theban town assay with wrath and battle to
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  Speaker 1: drag down my maids lo in their part, myself shall
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  Speaker 1: be and manic armies battled after me. For this, I
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  Speaker 1: veil my Godhead with the one form of the things
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  Speaker 1: that die and walk as man o brood of Tamolus.
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  Speaker 1: Oer the wide world blown o Lydian band, my chosen
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  Speaker 1: and mine own damsels uplifted, o'er the orient deep, to
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  Speaker 1: wonder where I wander, and to sleep where I sleep?
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  Speaker 1: Up and wake the old sweet sound, the clang that
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  Speaker 1: I and mystic rear found the tembrel.
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  Speaker 2: Of the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: Gather all thebes to your song ground, Pantheus, royal hall,
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  Speaker 1: I seek my new made worshipers to guide the dancers up.
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  Speaker 1: Gadaran's pine clad sighed as he departs that come stealing
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  Speaker 1: in from the left a band of fifteen Eastern women,
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  Speaker 1: the light of the sunrise streaming upon their long white
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  Speaker 1: robes and ivy band herb. They wear thornskins over the robes,
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  Speaker 1: and carry some of them timbrels, some pipes, and other instruments.
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  Speaker 1: Many bear the thrsus or sacred wand made of reed
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  Speaker 1: ringed with ivy. They enter stealthily till they see that
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  Speaker 1: the place is empty, and then begin them a stick
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  Speaker 1: song of worship.
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  Speaker 2: Chorus A maiden.
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  Speaker 1: From Asia, from the day spring that uprises to promise
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  Speaker 1: us ever glorying.
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  Speaker 2: We came. We labored for our Lord.
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  Speaker 1: In many guisers we toil, But the toil is as
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  Speaker 1: the prize is Thou mystery.
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  Speaker 2: We hail thee by thy name.
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  Speaker 1: Another who lingers in the road, who aspise us, He
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  Speaker 1: shall hide him in his house, Nor be bold let
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  Speaker 1: the heart keep silence that defies us. For I sing
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  Speaker 1: this day to die NICUs, the song that is appointed
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  Speaker 1: from of old.
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  Speaker 3: All the maidens.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, blessed, said he in all wise who has drunk
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  Speaker 1: the living phantom, whose life no folly stayinath, and his
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  Speaker 1: soul is near to God, whose sins are lifted paul
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  Speaker 1: wise as he worships on the mountain, and where sybilly
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  Speaker 1: ordaineth our mother. He has trod his head with Ivy
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  Speaker 1: Layton and his theirs, a tossing high for our God.
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  Speaker 1: He lifts his cry, Ah, Oh, back eye, wife and maiden, come, oh,
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  Speaker 1: ye back eye, come, Oh bring the joy, bestow it God,
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  Speaker 1: Seed of God, the seat, Bring promios in his power
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  Speaker 1: from fridgious mountain, down the street in town and tower, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: bring ye Bromios home. Whom erst in anguished, lying for
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  Speaker 1: an unborn like desire, as a dead thing in the thunder,
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  Speaker 1: his mother cast to earth, for her heart was dying,
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  Speaker 1: dying in the white heart of the fire. Till Zeus,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord of Wonder, devised.
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  Speaker 2: New layers of birth.
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  Speaker 1: Yea his own flesh tore to hide him, and with
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  Speaker 1: clasps of bitter gold, did a secret sun and fold,
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  Speaker 1: And the queen knew not beside him till the perfect.
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  Speaker 2: Our was that.
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  Speaker 1: Then a horned God was found under God, with serpents crowned.
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  Speaker 1: And for that are serpens wound in the wands. His
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  Speaker 1: maiden's bad on the songs of serpents sound in the
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  Speaker 1: mazes of their head. Some maidens, oh, hail o thieves Thou,
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  Speaker 1: nurse of Semelet, with Semila's wild ivy crown thy towers,
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  Speaker 1: or burst in bloom.
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  Speaker 2: Of breathing Brianic berries and leaves and flowers.
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  Speaker 1: Up let the dark divine wand the oak wand and
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  Speaker 1: the pine one.
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  Speaker 2: And done thy faun skin fringed in.
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  Speaker 1: Purity, with fleecy white black hours, cleanse thee in the ones,
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  Speaker 1: waving pride. Yea, all men shall dance with us and
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  Speaker 1: pray when Bromeos his company shall guide hillward, ever hillward
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  Speaker 1: where they stay the flock of the believing the maids
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  Speaker 1: from loom and weaving, by the magic of his breath
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  Speaker 1: blown away.
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  Speaker 2: Others hail thou, owners.
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  Speaker 1: Of zeus O cavern haunt, where fierce arms clang to God,
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  Speaker 1: God's cradle.
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  Speaker 2: Rat for thee of old.
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  Speaker 1: Some crested corybant first woke in Cretan air. The wild
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  Speaker 1: orb of our orgies, Our timbrel and thy gorges rang
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  Speaker 1: with this strain and blended bridge chant and sweet keen
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  Speaker 1: pipes were that but the timbrel.
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  Speaker 2: The timbrel was.
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  Speaker 1: Another's underway to mother. It must wend and to our
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  Speaker 1: holy singing from the mothers. The mad Satis carried it
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  Speaker 1: to blend in the dancing and the cheer of our
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  Speaker 1: third and perfect year, and it serves Dionysus in the end.
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  Speaker 1: A maiden, Oh, glad, glad on the mountain, to swoon
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  Speaker 1: in the race out warmth, when the holy fawn skin clings,
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  Speaker 1: and all else sweeps awake to the joy of the
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  Speaker 1: red quick fountains, the blood of the hill goat tom
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  Speaker 1: the glory of wild beast ravenings, where the hilltops catch
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  Speaker 1: the day. To the Phrygian Lydian mountain. Tis Bromios leads
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  Speaker 1: the way. Another maiden then streams the earth with milk yey,
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  Speaker 1: streams with wine and nectar of the bee, and through
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  Speaker 1: the air dim perfumes themes of Syrian frankincense, and he
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  Speaker 1: are leaded from his thesis spray A touch light tosses
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  Speaker 1: high and higher, a touch light like a beacon fire,
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  Speaker 1: to waken all that faint and.
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  Speaker 2: Straight, and sets them leaping.
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  Speaker 1: As he sings his tresses rippling to the sky and
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  Speaker 1: deep beneath the minette cry his proud voice rings, Come,
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  Speaker 1: oh ye back eye, Come all the maidens hither, oh
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  Speaker 1: fragrant of Toomolus, the golden come with the voice of
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  Speaker 1: timbrel and drum let the cry of your giants, uplift
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  Speaker 1: and embolden the god of the joy. Cry, Oh Baccanal's come,
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  Speaker 1: with peeling a pipe, and with pridge and clamate arm
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  Speaker 1: whether vision of holiness thrills, and the music climbs, and
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  Speaker 1: the maddening glamour, with the wild white maids, to the hills,
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  Speaker 1: to the hills.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, then, like.
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  Speaker 1: A colt as he runs by a river, a colt
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  Speaker 1: by his dam, when the heart of him sings, with
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  Speaker 1: the keen limbs drawn and the fleet foot aquiver away,
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  Speaker 1: the Baccanal springs. Enter Tyresius. He is an old man
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  Speaker 1: and blind, leaning upon a staff, and moving with slow stateliness,
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  Speaker 1: though wearing the ivy and the backic fawn skin. Tyresius, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the who keeps the gate, Go summon me Cadmus again,
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  Speaker 1: Our's son who crossed the sea from Sidon and upreared
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  Speaker 1: this theban hole. Go whosoeer thou art see he be told,
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  Speaker 1: Tiresias seeketh them himself, will gauge mine errand and the
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  Speaker 1: compact age with age. I bowed with him gray hair
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  Speaker 1: with snow white hair, to deck the new God's thrusus,
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  Speaker 1: and to wear his thorn skin, and with ivy crown
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  Speaker 1: our brows, and to Cadmus from the castle. He is
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  Speaker 1: even older than Tyresius, and wears the same attiren Cadmus,
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  Speaker 1: True friend, I knew that voice of thine that flows
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  Speaker 1: like mellow wisdom from a fountain. Wise, and lo I
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  Speaker 1: come prepared in all the guise and harness of this God.
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  Speaker 1: Are we not told? His is the soul of that
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  Speaker 1: dead life of old that sprang from mine own daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Surely then must thou an eye with all the strength
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  Speaker 1: of men exalt him? Well, then shall I stand, We
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  Speaker 1: tread the dance and toss this bowden hoaryhead, Oh friend,
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  Speaker 1: in these wisdom guide my grain, eld worn steps, eld
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  Speaker 1: worn Tiresias, Nay I am not weep. At the first
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  Speaker 1: movement of worship, his manner begins to change. A mysterious
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  Speaker 1: strength and exultation enter into him. Surely this arm could
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  Speaker 1: smite the wild earth with its tharaceus, date and night
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  Speaker 1: and thing not sweetly unforgetfully the dim years fall from
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  Speaker 1: off me, Tiresias, as with the with me tis likewise
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  Speaker 1: light am I and young, and will say the dancing
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  Speaker 1: and the song cat must quick man at chariots to
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  Speaker 1: the mountain road tires, yes, nay to take steeds?
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  Speaker 2: What to mistrust?
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  Speaker 1: The god cat must so be it mine old arm
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  Speaker 1: shall guide thee that tires. Yes, the God himself shall guide.
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  Speaker 1: Have thou no cat, cad must and in all thebes
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  Speaker 1: shall no man dance but we tires. Yes, I thebes
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  Speaker 1: is blinded. Thou and I can see Cadmus tis weary
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  Speaker 1: waiting hold my hand. Friends, so tires, Yes, lo there
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  Speaker 1: is mine souling. Cad Let us go. Cad must shall
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  Speaker 1: things of dust the God's dark ways. Despise tiresias, or
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  Speaker 1: prove our wit on heavens high mysteries. Not thou and
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  Speaker 1: I that heritage sublime. Our sires have left us wisdom
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  Speaker 1: old as time. No word of man, how deep so
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  Speaker 1: are his thought, and one of subtless toil, may bring
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  Speaker 1: to naught. I men will rail that I forget my
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  Speaker 1: years to dance and breathe with ivy these white hairs,
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  Speaker 1: what recks aid? Seeing the god? No line hath told
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  Speaker 1: to mark what man shall dance, or young or old
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  Speaker 1: but craves his honors from mortality, or no man marked
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  Speaker 1: apart and great shall be Catmus. After looking away toward
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  Speaker 1: the mountain Tresius. Since this light that can'st not read,
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  Speaker 1: I must be seer for the he comes in speed,
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  Speaker 1: Pentheus Echion's son, whom I have raised to rule my
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  Speaker 1: people in my stead. Amazed he seems, stand close and
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  Speaker 1: mark what we shall hear. The two stand back, partially concealed.
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  Speaker 1: Stand close and mark what we shall hear. The two
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  Speaker 1: stand back, partially concealed. While there enters in hot haste. Pentheus,
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  Speaker 1: followed by a bodyguard. He is speaking to the soldier
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  Speaker 1: in command. Pentheus, scarce, had I crossed our borders when
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  Speaker 1: mine ear was caught by this strange rumor that our
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  Speaker 1: own wives, our own sisters, from.
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  Speaker 2: Their hearts, are flown to wild.
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  Speaker 1: And secret rights, and cluster there high on the shadowy
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  Speaker 1: hills with dance and prayer to adore this new made God,
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  Speaker 1: this Dioniyes whate he beat. And in their company's deep
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  Speaker 1: wine jars stand and ever under none away into the loneliness.
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  Speaker 1: Now one steals forth, and now a second maid or dame,
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  Speaker 1: where love lies waiting not of God. The flame, they
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  Speaker 1: say of Bakias.
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  Speaker 3: Or RUPs them Baccius.
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  Speaker 1: Nay, tis more to Approdite that they pray, how bit,
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  Speaker 1: or that I have bound my men, all bound and
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  Speaker 1: shuckled in our dungeon, dem the rest. I will go home, then,
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  Speaker 1: I and snare my birds with nets of iron to
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  Speaker 1: quell their bread and mountain stungue and rights of Raskoldom.
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  Speaker 1: They tell me too. There is a stranger come, a
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  Speaker 1: man of charm and spell from Lydian seas ahead, or
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  Speaker 1: gold and cloudy fragrances, a wine red cheet, and eyes
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  Speaker 1: that hold the light of the very Cyprian day, and
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  Speaker 1: live long night. He haunts amid the damsels, or each
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  Speaker 1: lip dangling his cup of giants.
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  Speaker 2: Let me grip.
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  Speaker 1: Him once, but once within these walls right swept, that
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  Speaker 1: one shall cease its music, and that drip of tossing
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  Speaker 1: curls liestill when my root sword falls between neck and trunk,
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  Speaker 1: tis all his word. This tale of Dionysus had that
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  Speaker 1: same bait that was blasted by the lightning flame with
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  Speaker 1: his dead mother. For that mother's light was reconceived, born
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  Speaker 1: perfect from the thigh of Zeus, and now is God,
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  Speaker 1: what call you these dreams, waves of the unknown wonderer,
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  Speaker 1: blasphemies that crave the very gibbet? Stay God, what here
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  Speaker 1: is another marvel?
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  Speaker 2: See?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in motleyformed skin's robe, the vision seer, Tiresias,
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  Speaker 1: and my mother's father. Here how depth of scorne adoring
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  Speaker 1: with the wand of backist father. Nay, mine eyes are bond.
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  Speaker 1: It is not your white head so fancy blown. It
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  Speaker 1: cannot be a cast off that ivy crown on mine
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  Speaker 1: own mother's sire. Set breathe that hand that cowers about it.
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  Speaker 1: Stop Tist, Thou hast planned this work, Tiresias, Thou must
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  Speaker 1: set another altar and another Yet amongst us? What new birds?
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  Speaker 1: And when more higher of gold interpreting new signs of fire?
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  Speaker 1: But by thy s as I the trick than thou
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  Speaker 1: worth setting chained amid thy crew of raving damsels for
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  Speaker 1: this evil dream, Thou hast brought us of new gods.
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  Speaker 1: When once the gleam of grapes have lit a woman's
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  Speaker 1: festival in all their prayers, there's no more health at all.
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  Speaker 1: Leader of the chorus, the words are not heard by
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  Speaker 1: Pentheus injurious king hast thou no care for God, nor
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  Speaker 1: Cadmus of the giant sod light spring to great Echion
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  Speaker 1: and to the diresius. Good words my son come easily
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  Speaker 1: when he that speaks is wise and speaks, but for
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  Speaker 1: the right else come They never swift, are vine and
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  Speaker 1: bright as though with thought, yet have no thought at all.
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  Speaker 1: Lo this new God, whom thou dost flat with, or
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  Speaker 1: I cannot speak the greatness, wherewith he in hellus shall
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  Speaker 1: be great. Two spirits there be young prince, that in
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  Speaker 1: man's world are first of worth to meet her. One
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  Speaker 1: is named She is the Earth. Call her which then
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  Speaker 1: the will who feeds man's frame with sustenance of things dried,
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  Speaker 1: and that which came her work to perfect. Second is
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  Speaker 1: the power from some melee born he found the liquid
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  Speaker 1: shower hid in the grape. He rests man's spirit dim
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  Speaker 1: from grieving. When the vine exalteth him, he giveth sleep
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  Speaker 1: to sink the fretful day in cool forgetting is there
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  Speaker 1: any way with man's sore heart save only to forget
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  Speaker 1: yea being God.
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  Speaker 2: The blood of him.
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  Speaker 1: Is set before the gods in sacrifice, that we for
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  Speaker 1: his sail may be blessed. And so to thee that
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  Speaker 1: fable shames him. How this God was knit into God's flesh, Nay,
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  Speaker 1: learn the truth of it, cleared from the false. When
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  Speaker 1: from that deadly light Zeus saved the babe and up
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  Speaker 1: to olympus height raised him, and hearer's wrath would cast him.
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  Speaker 1: Thence then Zeus devised him a divine defense, a fragment
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  Speaker 1: of the world encircling fire. He went apart and wrought
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  Speaker 1: to his desire of shape and hue in the image
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  Speaker 1: of the child, and gave to hero's rage, and so
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  Speaker 1: beguiled by change and passing time. This tale was born,
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  Speaker 1: how the babe God was hidden in the torn flesh
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  Speaker 1: of his sire. He hath no shame. Thereby a propheties
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  Speaker 1: He likewise prophecy cleaved to all frenzy, but beyond all else,
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  Speaker 1: to frenzy of breath. Then in us verily dwells the
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  Speaker 1: God himself and speaks the thing to be yay under
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  Speaker 1: air is realm apart ati. When mortal armies maillard under
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  Speaker 1: aid have in strange fear, or ever blade met blade bled, madden,
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  Speaker 1: tis this God that pulls in them I Overdophi's rock
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: built diadem. They yet shall see him leaping with his
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: train of fire across the twin peak mountain plane, flaming
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the darkness with his mystic wand and great in hellas
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: list and understand, King Pentheus, dream not thou that force
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: is powered, Nor if thou hast a thought, and that
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: thought sour and sick, Oh, dream not thought is wisdom? Up,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: receive this God to thee, Pour forth the cup of sacrifice,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: and pray and read thy brow, thou fearest for the damsels,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I think thee now, how touch at this the part
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: of Diane eyes to hold maids pure perforce? In them
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: it lies and their own hearts. And in the wildest
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: right cometh no staying to her whose heart is white?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Nay mark met thou hast thy joy? When the gate
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: stands thronged, and Pentheus Dame is lifted great and high
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: by thebes in clamor shall not he rejoice in his
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: due meed of majesty? How be it this Catmus whom
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: thus constant, I will weigh his crown and shread his dances.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I a as are white. Yet shall that dance be trodd?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I will not lift mine arm to war with God
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: for thee, nor all thy words, madness, most follies on thee,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: madness wrought by some dread spell, but not by spell
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: nor leechcraft, to be cured. Chorus, Great prophet worthy, the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Ophebus is thy wold and wise in honoring Bromios, Oh
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: great God, Cadmus my son right well, Tyresius points thy road.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I'll make thine habitation here with us, not lonely against
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: men's uses. Hazardous is this quick bird like beating of
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: thy thought where no thought dwells. Grant that this God
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: be not yet, Let that not be somewhat in thy mouth.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Lie boldly and say he is so. North and south
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: shall marvel how there sprang a thing divine from smalese
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: flesh and honor all allying drawing nearer to Pentheus is
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: They're not blood before thine eyes. Even now our lust
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Actaean's blood. One long ago his own red hounds through
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: yonder forest, dim tor unto death, because he vaunted him
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: against most holy Artemis. I'll be word, and let me
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: read thy temples, make thy prayer with us, and walk
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: thee humbly in God's sight. He makes, as if to
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: set the wreath on Pentheus's head. Pentheus down with that hand,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: all right thee to thy right, n smear on me
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: by foul contigion, turning upon Tyresius, this thy folly's head,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: and prompt us shall not miss the justice that he needs.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Go half my god forth to the rock seat where
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: he dwells in ward or birds and wonders. Run the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: stone with crow and tried, and make one wreck of
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: high and low, and toss his bands to all the
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: winds of earth.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Have I found the way to sting thee?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: There the rest forth through the town, and take a man,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: this girl faced stranger, that I throught such bane to
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: all thebes, praying on our maids. And why seek till
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: you find and lead him here in Jibes, till he
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: be judged and stoned and weep in blood. The day
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: he troubled Penthee with his god, the God set forth
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: in two bodies. Pentheus goes into the castle. Tyresius, hard heart,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: How little dost thou know what seed? Thus so a
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: blind before and now indeed most mad come cad must
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: let us go our way and pray for this persecutor,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: pray for this poor city, that the righteous God moved
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: not in anger, Take thine ivy rod, and help my
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: steps as I help thine to ill. If two old
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: men should fall by the roadway, still come, what come
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: mat our sober shall be done to Bacchia, the old
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Father's mystic son opened the named of sorrow. Shall he
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: claim from all thy house fulfillment of his name, old cat.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Must I speak not from mine art, but as I
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: see blind word and a blind The two old men
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: go off towards the mountain chorus some maidens, Thou immaculate
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: on high thy recording purity, Thou, the stupest golden wing
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: earth would man would pitying hearest thou, this angry king.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Hearest thou. The rage and scorn against the Lord of
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: many voices him of mortal Mother, born him in whom
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: man's heart rejoice with garlands and with glee, first in
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Heaven's sovereignty for his kingdom. It is that in the
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: dancing and the prayer, in the music and the laughter,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: in the vanishing.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Of ted and of all before and after, in the.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Gods high banquet, when gleams the great blood flashed to
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: heaven yea, and in the feasts of men comes his
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: crowned slumber. Then pain is dead, and hate forgiven.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: Others.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Loose thy lips from out the ring, lift thy wisdom
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: to disdain whatso lor that canstnot see scorning, So the
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: end shall be uttermost calamity. Kiss the life of quiet
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: breadth tis the simple and the true. Storm, nor earthquake
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: shatter it, norsell author house undo Where they dwell, far
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: far away, hidden from the eyes of day watchers are
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: there in the skies that can see man's life and
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: prize deeds well done by things of play. But the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: world's wise are not wise, claiming more than mortal may
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: life is such a little thing lo Their present is departed,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and the dreams to which they cling come not mad.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Imagining theirs I ween and empty hearted, diverse maidens.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Where is the home for.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Me, our Cyprus, set in the seat Afriditis, home in
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the st sea foam? What I could win to the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: where the wings of the loves are filled and faint,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the heart of the world eye into paper spire, where
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: the rainless meadows smile with riches rolled from the hundredfold
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: mouths of the far off nile, streaming beneath the waves,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: to the roots of the seaward caves, But a better
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: land is that where Olympus cleaves the air, the high
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: still dull, where the muses dwell, fairest of all things, fair,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: while there is grace, and there is the heart's desire
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: and peace to adore the Thou spirit of guiding fire.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: A god of heaven is heat and born in majesty.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Yet hath he mirth in the joy of the earth,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: And he loveth constantly her who brings increase the feeder
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: of children. P no grudge, hath he of the Great,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: no scorn of the mean state. But to all that
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: liveth his wine he giveth griefless immaculate. Only on them
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that spurn joy, may his anger burn. Love thou other
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: day and the night, be glad of the dark and
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the light, And avert thine eyes from the lore of
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: the wise that have honor in proud men's sight. The simple,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: nameless herd of humanity, hath deeds and faith that are
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: truth enough for me. As the chorus seizes a party
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: of the god's return, leading in the midst of them,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Dionysus bound, the soldier in command, stands forth as Pentheus,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: hearing the tramp of feet, comes out from the castle soldier,
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: a quest is finished, and thy pray o king court,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: where the chase was swift, and this wild thing most tame,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: yet never flinched nor thought to flee, but held both
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: hands out unresistingly, no change, no blanching of the wine
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: red cheek. He waited while we came, and badest recall
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: thy decreek. Yea laughed and made my hest easy till
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I for very shame confessed, and said, oh, stranger, not
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: of mine own will I bind thee, but his bidding
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: to fulfill who sent me and those prisoned maids, with
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: all whom thou didst cease and bind within the wall
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: of thy great dungeon. They a floodter king free in
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the woods, are dance and glorying to Bromia. Of their
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: own impulse fell to earth, men say, veteran manacle and
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: bastard back untouched a mortal hand, Yeah, full of many
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: wonders to the land.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: Is this man come?
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Howbeit it lies with the pen as ye are mad
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: unhand him, how so swiftly big my toils around him,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: and he shall not fly. The gods loose the arms
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: of Dionysus. They have studies him for a while in silence,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: then speaks jeeringly. Dionysus remains gentle and unafraid. Marry a
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: fair shape for a woman's eye, sir stranger, and thus
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: secret no more I ween long girls with ah ah,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: that shows that there has been a wrestler down both
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: cheeks so softly tossed and win some and a white skin.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: It hath cast the pains to please thy damsels with
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: this white and red of cheeks that never face the light.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Dionysus is silent, Speak, sirrah, tell me first thy name
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: and race, Dionysus. No glory is there in nor yet
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: disgrace thou hast heard of Tamolus, the bright tiller flowers Phus.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Surely the ridge that winds by Sardis towers Dionysus. Thence
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: am i Lydia was my fatherland Pentheus. And whence these
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: revelations that thy band spreadeth in Dionysus their intent and use.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Dionysus OpEd to me the child of Zeus. Pentthus brutally
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: is there a Zeus there that can still beget young gods? Dionysus, nay,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: only he whose seal was set here in thy thieves
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: on smile they as what way descended upon the in
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: full day or vision of night? Dionysus most clear, he
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: stood and scanned my soul and gave his emblems to
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: mine handyus. What like be they these emblems, Dionysus, that
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: may not reveal nor no save his elect alone, Penthius,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: And what good bring they to the worshiper, Dionysus, good
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: beyond price, but not for thee to hear it? Pent
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: they as thou checkst out, thou wouldst prick me on
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: the more to seek them out. Dionysus. His mysteries abhor
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the touch of sin lovers, Penthius. And so thine eyes
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: saw this god plane. What guys had he? Dionysus, what
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: guys it liked him? Twas not I ordainedi'sh shape, Penthius.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: I definitely turned again an idol jake, And nothing answered Dionysus.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Wise words being brought to blinded eyes will seem as
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: things have not, Pantheus, And comest thou first to thebes
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: to have thy god established. Dionysus. Nay or Barbary hath
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: trod his dancer. This Pantheus, a low blind folk. I
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: ween beside our Hellen's Dionysus higher and more keen in
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: this thing, though their ways are not thy way, Pentheus,
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: how is thy worship hell by night or day? Dionysus
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: most of by night, artism, majestic thing, the darkness Pantheus,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: with women worshiping, taste, craft and rottenness Dionysus by day.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: No less whoso will seek may find unholiness. Pus enough
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: thy doom respects for false pretense, corrupting thieves, Dionysus, not
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: mine but thine, for dense blindness of heart, and for
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: blaspheming God. Pentheus already nave it is and brazen brad
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: this mystery priest, Dionysus, Come, say what it shall be
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: my doom?
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: What I think will that do to me?
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: Penthius?
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: First share that delicate curl that dangles, dad He beckons
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: to the soldiers who approach Dionysus, Dionysus, I have vowed
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: it to my God's holy head. The soldiers cut off
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: the tress. Pentheus. Next, yield me at thy stop, Dionysus,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: raise thine own hand to take it. This is Dionysus.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: One.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Pentheus takes the start Pentheus. Last, I will hold thee
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: prisoned here. Dionysus, my Lord God will unloose me. When
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I speak the word Phyus, he may if again amid
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: his bands of saints, he hears thy voice, Dionysus. Even
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: now he stands close here and.
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: Sees all that I suffered.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: And they ask, what where is it? For mine eyes
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: discern him? Not, Dionysus, where I am. Tis thine own
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: impurity that veils him from the they as the dodgers
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: at me, at me, and thieves bind him.
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: The soldiers begin to bind him.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Dionysus, I charge, ye bind me, not Hi, having vision,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: and ye blinds, and I we'd better write, say bind
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: the more the soldiers obey. Dionysus, thou knowest not what
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: and thou seekest, nor what deed thou doest, nor.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: What man thou art.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Thus mocking, I gave his son, and on the father's
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: part Echion's Hypantheus. Dionysus, so let it be a name
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: fore written to calamity. Thus away and tie, and whether
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: the steeds are tied, Hi, let him lie in the mange.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Their abidon stare into the darkness, and this route of
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: woman kind that clusters thee about thy menace desert worship
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: on my slaves. It may be I will sell them
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: are the waves hither and feather.
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: Else they shall be set.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: To labor at my distops, and forget their timbrel and
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: their songs of dawning day. Dionysus, I go for that
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: which may not be. I may not suffer yet for
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: this thy sin. Lo he whom thou deniest, cometh after
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: thee for recompense. Yea in thy wrong to us, thou
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: hast cast him into thy prison. Has Dionysus, without his
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: wand his hair shone, and his arms tightly bound, is
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: led off by the guards to his dungeon. Pentheus returns into.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: The palace.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Chorus.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Some maidens.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Acaluus roaring daughter wholly do say virgin water bathe di
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: not of old in thee, the babe of God. The
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: mystery when from out the fire immortal to himself is
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: God did take him to his own flesh and bespakem
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: enter now life's second portal, motherless mystery.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: Though I break mine own.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Body for thy sake, bow with the twofold door, and
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: seal the mine o bromios. Thus he spake, and to
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: this thy land revealed thee. All still my prayer toward
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: the quivers, does say still to the ihaim, Why, oh,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: blessed among rivers, wilt thou fly me?
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: Un deny me by his own joy? I vow by
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: the grape upon the bow.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Thou shalt seek him in the midnight. Thou shalt love
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: him even now other maidens dark and of the dark, impassioned?
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Is this Pentheus blood yea fashioned of the dragon, and
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: his birth from Echion, child of Earth. He is no
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: man but a wonder. Did the earth child not beget
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: him as a red giant to set him against God,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: against the than that he will bind me for his prize.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Me the bride of Dionis, and my priest, my friend,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: is taken even now and buried lies in the dark.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: He lies forsaken.
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: Oh Lo we race with death, we perish Dionysus. Here
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: before the dost Thou mark ust, not not cherish, who
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: implore thee and adore thee Hither down, olymp beside, Come,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: o Holy One, divide be thy golden wand uplifted or
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the tyrant in his pride a maiden, Oh art thou
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: in thine own Nisa, thou a help alone, O fierce
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: beast and orient lands dot by thronking Thersus, wave by
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: the high Corythian cave or worstern Olympus stands in the
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: elmwoods and the oaken there where Orpheus harped of old,
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: and the trees awoke and knew him, and the wild
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: things gathered to him as he sang amid the broken glens,
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: his music manifold blessed land of Peeric. Dionysus loveth thee.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: He will come to thee with dancing, Come with joy
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: and mystery, with the Maynards at his hest, Winding winding
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: to the west, cross the flood of swiftly glancing axios
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: in majesty, Cross the Lydias, the giver of good gifts
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: and waving green, Cross that farther stream of story through
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: a land of steeds and glory, rolling Braver's fairest river
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: air of mout seeing a voice within.
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: Are you are your awake yet?
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Damsels hear my cry calling my chosen hearken ye a
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: maiden who speaketh? Oh what echoes us? Another a voice,
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: a voice that calleth us, the voice be of good cheer.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: Lo it is I the child of Zeus and Semele
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: a maiden, Oh, muster Master, it is thou another, O,
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: holy voice, be with us now, the voice spirit of
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: the chained earthquake.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Hear my word, Awake, Awake.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: An earthquake suddenly shakes the pillars of the castle. A maiden, ha,
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: what is coming? Shall the hall of Pentheus racked in
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: ruin fall? Leader, How God is in the house, Ye
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: maids adore him? Chorus, we adore him all the voice,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: unveil the lightning's eye, arouse the fire that sleeps against
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: this house. Fire leaps up on the tomb of Semele.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: A maiden has saw ye march that the flame from
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: samelis and hallowed sod awakened. Yea the death that came
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: ablaze from heaven of old, the same hot splendor of
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: the shaft of God. Leader, How cast you cast you
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: to the earth. The Lord cometh against this house? How
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: cast you down, ye trembling damsels? He own adored, God's
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: child hath come, and all is overthrown. The maidens cast
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: themselves upon the ground, their eyes wood. Dionysus alone and unbound,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: enters from the castle Dionysus, Ye, damsels of the morning hills,
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Why lie ye thus dismayed? Ye marked him then our
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: master and the mighty, and delayed on tower and rock,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: shaking the house of Pentheus. But arise and cast the
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: trembling from your flesh, and lift untroubled eyes. Lead it, Oh,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: light in darkness? Is it thou, o priest?
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: Is this thy face?
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: My heart leaps out to greetly from the deep of loneliness.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Dionysus fell ye so quick, despairing when beneath the gate
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I passed. Should the gates of Pentheus quealm it? Or
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: his darkness make me fast?
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: Lead it? Oh? What was left?
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: If thou wert gone? What could I but despair? How
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: hast that kept the man of sin who wheet thee
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: from the snat Dionysus, I had no pain nor peril,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: twas mine own hands set me free.
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: Lead it. Thine arms were gibert.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Dionysus, nay, no gibe, No touch was laid on me.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: Twas there I mocked him in.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: His gibe, and gave him dreams for food, for when
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: he let me down. Behold before the stall there stood
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: a bullet offering and this king. He bit his lips
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: and straight fell on and bounded hoop and limb, with gasping,
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: rough and sweat, and I sat watching. Then a voice,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: and lo, our lord was come, and the house shook,
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: and a great flame stood o'er his mother's tomb, and
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: Pantheus hied this way and that, and called ist rolls
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: maine for water, lest his rupe tree burn, and all toiled,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: all in vain. Then deemed a sudden, I was gone,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: and left his fire, and sped back to the prison portals,
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: and his lifted sword shone red. But there methinks that
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: God had wrought I speak, but as I guess some
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: dream shape in my image, For he smote at emptiness,
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: stabbed in the air, and strove in roth, as though
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: twere me he slipped. Then mid his dreams God smote him.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Yet again he.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Overthrew all that high house, and there in wreck for
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: evermore It lies that the day of this my bonded
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: may be sore in Pentheus eyes. And now his sword
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: is fallen, and he lies out worn and won. Who
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: dared to rise against his god in roping? But man
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: and I rose and left him, and in all peace
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: took my path forth to my chosen, wrecking the light
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: of Pentheists and Israel. But suck thinks of footstep sounds.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Even now within the hall tis he thinking he will stand,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: and what words speak with all? I will enjoy him gently,
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: though we come in fury hot for still other ways
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: of wisdom and her tempered tremble of not and of
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: chapter one chapter two of The Back Eye by Euripides,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: translated by Gilbert Murray. This LibriVox recording is in the
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: public domain recording by Tony Addison. And to Pentheus in fury, Pentheus,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: it is too much This eastern nave hath slipped his
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: present whom I help? But now hard grit in bondage. Ha, Oh,
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: what Sarah, How shoest thou before my potters? He advances
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: furiously upon him, Dionysus softly there and set a quiet
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: carriage to thy rage. Pentheus, How comest thou here? How
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: didst thou break thy cage? Speak, Dionysus, Yes, said I not?
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Or didst thou mark not me? There was one living
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: that should set me free? Pentheus, who ever wilder these
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: tales of thine Dionysus, he who first made for man
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: the cluster divine Pentheus, I scorn him and his vines Dionysus,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: for dionysed tis well, for in thy scorn his glory realizes.
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  Speaker 1: Pentheus to his God, go swept all the towers, and
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: bar with all each gate. Dionysus war cannot God or
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: lepal war Pentheus, Oh what thou hast save where thou needers?
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  Speaker 1: Did Dionysus worse? So it most imports.
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  Speaker 3: There is my wit.
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Nay, peace abide till he who hasteth from the mountainside
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: with news for thee become. We will not fly, but
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: wait on thy command. Enter suddenly and in haste a
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: messenger from the mountain. Messenger, Great Pentheist, Lord of all
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: this theban land. I come from Hika, then, where the
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: frost snow, spangles, gleam and ceased not ever more, Panentheus,
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: And what of import may thy coming bring? Messenger? I
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: have seen the whe old white women there o, king
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: whose fleet limbs darted arrow like. But now from thebes
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: away and come to tell THEE how they work strange
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: deeds and pasting marble. Yet I first would learn thy pleasure?
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: Shall I set my wholetel for or veil the stranger part,
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: yea lord, I fear the swiftness of thy heart, thine
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: edged rock, and more than royal soul, pantheus thy tail
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: shall nothing scathe thee tell the whole it skills not
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: to be rough with honesty. Nay, if thy news of
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: them be dark, tis he shall pay it who bewitched
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: and led them on messenger. I heard it kind were
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: moving in the dawn up to the peaks, the grayest
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: coldest time, when the first ray steal earthward and the
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: rhyme yields. When I saw three bands of them, the
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: one or tunaway lad, one eno one thine own mother
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: Agave there beneath the tree sleeping. They lay like wild things,
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: flung at ease in the forest, one half sinking on
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: a bed of deep pine greenery, one with careless head
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: amid the fallen oak leaves, almost cold, impuritied not as
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: thy tale was told of wine cups and wild music,
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: and the chase for love amid the forest's loneliness. Then
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: rose the Queen Agave suddenly amid her band, and gave
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: the gods wild crid awake Ye back anals I hear
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: the sound of horned kind. Awake ye then or around
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: alert the warm sleep fallen from their eyes a marvel
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: of swift ranks. I saw them rise, Dames young and old,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: and gentle maids. Unweed among them are their shoulders. First
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: they shed their tresses, uncut up the fallen fold of mantles,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: while some clasp but loosened hold and girth the dapple
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: thorn skins in with long, quick snakes that hisst and
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: writhed with quivering tongue. And one a young fawn held,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: and one a wild wolf cub, and fed them with
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: white milk and smiled in love. Young mothers with a
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: mother's breast, and babes at home forgotten. Then they breathed,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: wreathed ivy around their brows, and oaken sprays and flowering bryony.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: And one would raise her wand and smite the rock,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: and straight jet of quick, bright water came another setter,
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: Thysus in the bosomed earth. And there was red wine
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: that the god sent up to her, a darkling phantin
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: and if any lip sought whiter draft, with dipping finger tips,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: they press'd the sub and gushing from the ground came
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: springs of milk and read one's I be cran ran
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: with sweet honey, drop by drop, O King, hadst thou
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: been there as eye and seen this thing with prayer
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: and most high wonder, hadst thou gone to adore this
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: God whom now thou roilst upon how bit the kind
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: wardens an shepherds straight came to one place, amazed and
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: hold debate. And one being there who walked the streets
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: and scann'd the ways of speech, took lead of them
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: whose hand knew but the slow soil and the solemn hill,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: and flattering spoken, And ours is it your wilt masters,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: We stay the mother of the king Agabe from her
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: lawless worshiping, and win us royal thanks. And this seemed
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: good to all. And through the branching underwood we hid
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: us cowering in the leaves, And there through the appointed
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: hour they made their prayer and worship of the wand
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: with one accord of heart and cry yakas brow me
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: ask Lord, God of God born, And all the mountain
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: felt and worshiped with them, and the wild things knelt
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: and ramped and gloried, and the wilderness was filled with
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: moving voices and dim stress. Soon as it chants beside
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: my thicket close the queen herself past dancing, and I
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: rose and sprang to seize it, but she turned her
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: face upon me. Ho, my rovers of the chase, my
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: wild white hounds, we are hunted up each rout and follow,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: follow for our Lord and God. They're up for fear
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: they tear us all. We fled, amazed and on with
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: hand and weapon. And they swept toward our herds that
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: browsed the green hill grass. Great udded kind. Then hadst
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: thou seen bullowing in sword like hands that cleave and tad,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: a live steer riven asunder, and the air tossed with
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: rent ribs or limbs of cloven tread and flesh upon
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: the branches, and a red rain from the deep green pines. Yea,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: bulls of pride horns swept a rage were fronted and aside,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: flung stumbling by those multitudin hands, dragged pitilessly, and swept
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: overre the bands of garbed flesh and bone unbound with
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: all that on thy royal eyes. The lids may fall
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: then on like birds by their own speed up bone.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: They swept toward the plains of waving corn that lie
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 1: beside a soapus banks and bring to thebes the rich
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 1: fruit of a harvesting on heasy A and urysthray that
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: lime nurse. Amid Gittharen's bowering rocks, they burst, destroying as
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: a foeman's army comes. They caught up little children from
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: their homes, high on their shoulders, babes unheld that swayed
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: and laughed and fell. Not all erect they made yea
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: bronze and iron did shatter, and in place drug hither
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: and thither, Yet no wound had they caught fire from
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: out the hards. Yea carried hot flames in their tresses,
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: and was scorched. Not the village folk and wroth took
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: spear and sword and turned upon the back eye. Then,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: dread Lord, the wonder was for spirit, nor barbered brand
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: could scathe nor touch the damsels. But the wand the
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: soft and wreathed wand their white hands sped, blasted those
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: men and quelled them, and they fled dizzily. Sure some
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: God was in these things. And the holy women back
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: to those strange springs, returned that God had sent them.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: When the day dawned on the upper height and washed
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: away the stain of battle, and those girdling snakes hissed
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: out to lap the water drops from cheeks and hair
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: and bread. Therefore I counsel the O king received this spirit,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: whoever he be, to thebes in glory greatness manifold is
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: all about him, and the tale is told that this
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: is he who, first a man, did give the greeper
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: suaging vine, or let him live, for if he die,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: then love herself is slain, and nothing joyous in the world. Again. Leader,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: Albeit I tremble and scarce may speak my thought to
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: a king's face, Yet will I hide it not? Dionis
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: is God, no god more true nor higher.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 3: Pentheus.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: It bursts hard bias like a smothered fire. This frenzy
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: of bacchic women or my land is made their mock.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: This needs an iron hand. How Captain quick to the
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: electron gate. Bid gather on my men at arms. There
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: at call all that spur the charger, all who know
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: to wield the orbed targe, or bend the bow. We
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: march to war. For God shall women dare such deeds
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: against us taste too much to bed Dionysus, Thou markst
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: me not O King, and holdest like my solemn words.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: Yet in thine own despite I warn thee, still lift
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: thou not up thy spear against a god, but hold
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: thy peace and fear he is rough, he will not
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: brook it. If thou fright, he is chosen from the
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: hills of their delight, Pentheus, peace that and if for
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: once thou hast left thy chain, get thanks, or shall
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: I nuck thine arms again, Dionysus to yield him prayer
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: and sacrifice.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: Then kick against the pricks.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: Since dionys is God, and thou but mortals? That will
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: I yeah, sacrifice of women's blood, to cry his name
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: through all gether, and Dionysus, ye shall fly all and
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: the base your shields of bronze and rim before their ones. Pentus,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: there is no way with him, this stranger that so
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: dougs as well, Or ill I mayn't treat him, he
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: must babble still, Dionysus, Wait, good, my friend, these crooked
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: matters may even yet be straightened. Pantheus has started as
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: though to seek his army at the gate. Pus, I,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: if I have bay mine own slaves, well, how else
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: Dionysus myself will lead the damsels hither without sword or steed.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: Now this is some plot against me, Dionysus, What dost
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: fear only to save thee?
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 3: Do I plot? Pantheus?
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: It is some compact ye have made webby to dance
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: these hills forever, Dionysus verilieve that is my compat plighted
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: with my lord Pius turning from him, Ho armorers bring
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: forth my shield and sword, and that'll be silent. Dionysus,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: after regarding him fixedly, speaks with resignation.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 3: Ah, have than thy will.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: He fixes his eyes upon Pentheus again while the armorers
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: bring out his armor, then speaks in a tone of command, man,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: thou wouldst fain behold them on the hill, praying Pentheus, who,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: during the rest of this scene, with a few exceptions,
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: simply speaks the thoughts that Dionysus puts into him, losing
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: power over his own mind. That would I, though it
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: cost me all the gold of thieves, Dionysus, so much,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: thou art quick to fall to such great longing. Pentheus,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: somewhat bewildered at what he has said, h t would
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: grieve me much to see them flown with wine. Dionysus
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: yet cravest thou such a sight as would much grieve
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: thee Pentheus.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: Yes, I vain would watch.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: Ambushed among the pines, Dionysus twe vain to hide. They
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: soon will track the ad Pentheus, whilst said to be
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: done openly, Dionysus, wilt thou be led by me and
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: try the venture?
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: Panaus?
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: I indeed lead on why should we tarry, Dionysus. First,
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: we need a rich and trailing robe of fine linen
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: to get thee Pantheus.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 3: Nay am I a woman?
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: Then?
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: And no man more?
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: Dionysus wouldst have them slay the dead? No man may
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: see their mysteries. Pentheus well said, I marked thy subtle
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: temper longin now, Dionysus, tis dionize that prompteth me, Pantheus,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: And how meanest thou the further plan, Dionysus, First, take
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: thy way within.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: I will array thee Pantheus.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 1: What arrayed the woman's? Nay? I will not, Dionysus, doth
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: it change so soon all thy desire to see this
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: strange a during Pantheus, Wait, what God wilt thou bestow
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: about me it? Dionysus, First, a long tress dangling low
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: beneath thy shoulders, Pentheus, I and neck Dionysus, the said
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 1: robe falling to thy feet, and on thine head a snood, Pentheus,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: and after after or beyond Dionysus, surely the dapple corn
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: skin and the one Pantheus, after a struggle with himself enough,
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: I cannot wear a robe and snood. Dionysus would sleep,
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: or draw the sword and spill men's blood, Pantheus again,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: doubting true that were evil, I tis best to go
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: first to some place of watch, Dionysus, far wiser so
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: than seek by wrath wroth's bitter recompen.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: Pantheus.
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: What of the city streets can't lead me? Hence unseen
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: of any Dionysus, lonely and done tried, thy path from
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: men shall be and.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 3: Either guy.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: Pentheus, I care for nothing, So these baccanals triumph not
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: against me. Forward to my halls within I will ordain
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: what seemeth best, Dionysus, So beard do king tis mine
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: to obey thine hest, whatever it.
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: Be, Pentheus.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: After hesitating once more and waiting well, I will go,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: but chance to march and scatter them with surd lant
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: per chance to take thy plan I know not yet.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 1: Exit Pantheus into the castle. Dionysus damseles the lion walketh
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: to the net. He finds his buck eye now and
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: sees and dies and pays for all his sin. O Diony's,
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: this is thine hour, and thou not far away. Grant
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: us our vengeance first, O Master, stay the course of
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: reason in him and instill a form of madness. Let
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: his seeing will, which ne'er had stoop to put thy
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: vesture on, be darkened till the deed is lightly done.
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: Grant likewise that he find through all his streets loud
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 1: scorn this man of wrath and bitter threats that made
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: thebes tremble.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 3: Lead in woman's guise.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: I go to fold that robe of sacrifice on Pentheus,
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: that shall deck him too the dark his mother's gip.
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: So shall he learn and mark God's true son, dion
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: eyes in fullness, God, most fearful yet to man, most
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: soft of mood. Exit Dionysus, following Pentheus into the castle. Chorus,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: Some maidens.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: Will they ever come to me? Ever?
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: Again? The long Long dancers on through the dark or
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: the dim stars wane. Shall I feel the dew on
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: my throat and the stream of wind in my hat?
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: Shall our white feet gleam in the dim expanses, our
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: feet of a fawn to the green wood, fled alone
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: in the grass, and the loveliness leap of the hunted,
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: no more in dread, beyond the snares and the deadly breast.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 1: Yet a voice still in the distant sounds, a voice
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: and a fear, and a haste of hounds, Oh, wildly laborring, fiercely,
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: fleet onward, Yet by river and glen is a joy
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: or tarrt yeast tom swept feet to the dear lone lands,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: untroubled of men, when no voice sounds, and amid the
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: shadowy green, the little things of the woodland live unseen.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: What else is wisdom? What of man's endeavored o'er God's
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: high grace, so lovely and so great to stand from fear,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: set free to breathe and wait to hold a hand,
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: uplifted over hate, And shall not loveliness be lov'd for
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: ever others? Oer strength of God slow up thout, and
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: still yet failest never on them that worship the ruthless
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: will on them that dream doth his judgment wait, dreams
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: of the proud man making great and greater evort things
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: which are not of God. In wide and devious covets.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: Hunt Wise, he coucheth time's unhasting stride, following following him,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: whose eyes look'd not to heav'n.
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: For all is vain.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: The pulse of the heart, the plot of the brain,
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: that striveth beyond the laws that live. And is thy
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 1: faith so much to give? Is it so hard a
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: thing to seek that the spirit of God whate'er it be?
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: The law that abides and changes, not ages long, the
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: eternal and nature born, these things be strong. What else
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: is wisdom? What of man's endeavor or God's high grace?
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: So lovely and so great to stand from fear, set
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: free to breathe, and wait to hold a hand uplifted
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: over hatred, and shall not loveliness be loved forever? Leader,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: Happy he on the weary seat, who hath fled the
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: tempest and won the haven. Happy whoso hath risen free
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: above his striving. For strangely graven is the orb of life,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: that one and another in gold and powert may outpass
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: his brother, and men in their millions float and flow
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: and seethe with a million hopes as leaven, and they
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: win their will, or they missed their will, and the
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: hopes are dead or are pined for still. But whoe
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: can know, as the long days go, that to live
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: is happy, hath found his heaven. Re Enter Dionysus from
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: the castle. Dionysus, Oh ay, that cravest sights thou must
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: not see, oh heart a thirst for that which slakes
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: not the Pentheus, I call forth and be seen in
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: guise of woman may nad saint of dionys to spy
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: upon his chosen and thine own mother, And to Pantheus,
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: clad like a buccanal and strangely excited a spirit of
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: bucket madness overshadowing him. Thy shape, my thinks, is like
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: to one of Katmus royal maids. Pentheus, Yeah, and mine
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: eye is bright. Yon sun shines twofold in the sky,
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: thebes twofold on the wall of seven gates. And is
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: it a wild bull this that walks and waits before me?
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: There are horns upon thy brow? What are that man
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: or beast? For surely now the bull is on the Dionysus,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: he who earthed was roth, goes with us. Now, gentleness,
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: he has unsealed thine eyes. To see what thou shouldst see, Pantheus, say, stander,
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: not as Eno stands, or she who bore me Dionysus.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: When I look on thee, it seems I see their
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: very selves. But stay, Why streams that lock abroad? Not
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: what I laid it crossed under the coi, Pentheus, I
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: did it as I tossed my head in dancing to
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: and fro and cried his holy music, Dionysus tending him.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: It shall soon be tied. Aright tis mine to tend thee. Nay,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: but stand with head straight, Pentheus, in the whole of
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: thy hand, I lay me deck me as thou wilt, Dionysus.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: Thy zone is loosened likewise, and the folded down, not
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: evenly falling to the feet. Pantheus tis so by the
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: right foot. But here methinks they flow in one straight
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: line to the heel Dionysus while tending him. And if
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: thou prove their madness true, I'm more than true. What
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: love and things hast thou for me, Pantheus not listening
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: to him in my right hand? Is it of us
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: that I should bear the one to be most like
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: to them?
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: Dionysus.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: Uh, let it swing in the right hand, timed with
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: the right foot, spring tis while thy heart is changed, Pentheus.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: More wildly, what strength is this gatherer and steeps and
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: all that in them? Is? How sayest thou could my
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: shoulders lift the hole? Dionysus, surely there can stand if
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: thou wilt. Thy soul, being once so sick, now stands
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: as it should stand, Pentheus. Shall it be bars of
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: iron of this bare hand and shoulder to the crags
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: to wrench them down? Dionysus wouldst direct the nymphs, wild temples,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: and the brown rocks where pan pipes at noon dead, Pentheus, Nay, not,
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: I force is not well with women. I will lie
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: hid in the pine break, Dionysus, even as fits a
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: spy on holy and fearful things. So shalt thou lie,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: Pantheus with a lah? They lie their Nama thinks the
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: wild birds caught by love among the leaves and fluttering, not, Dionysus.
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 2: It may be.
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: That is what thou goest to see I and to
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: trap them, so they trap not the Pantheus fall through
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: the thebans town. I am their king, ay, the one
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: man seeing I dare this thing, Dionysus, yeay, thou shalt
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: bear their burden thou alone. Therefore thy trial awaiteth thee.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: But on with me into thine ambush shop that come unscathed.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: Then let another bear the home, theus, the queen, my
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: mother Dionysus marked of every eye, Panthius. But that I go, Dionysus,
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: thou shalt be borne on high Panthius, that were like pride, Dionysus,
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 1: thy mother's hands shall share they carrying Penthius. Nay, I
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: need not such soft cat, Dionysus, so so Pentus, whate'er
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: it be, I have earned it well, Exit Pantheus towards
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: the mountain. Dionysus fell fella and to a doom.
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 3: So far well thou, walkers, that thy name.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: From south to north shall shine a sign forever reach
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: thou forth thine arms a gave now, and ye dark
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: browed cat, may and sisters greet this prince so proud
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: to the high ordeal worse sake God, and meet none
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: walks unscathed. The rest this day shall see exit Dionysus
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: following Pentheus chorus, Some maidens, oh hounds, raging and blind
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: up by the mountain road, Sprites of the maddened mind,
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: to the wild maids of God, fill with your rage
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: their eyes rage at the rage, unblessed watching in woman's guise,
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: the spy upon God's possessed a bacchanal, Who shall be
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 1: first to mark eyes in the rock, that spy eyes
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: in the pine tree? Dark?
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: Is it his mother?
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: And cray?
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 2: Lo?
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: What is this that comes haunting, troubling still even in
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: our heights, our homes, the wild maids of the hill,
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: What flesh bear this child? Never on woman's breast, changelings
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: so evil smiled man? Is he not but beast lying
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: shape of the wild gorgan breed of the waste? Or
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: the chorus? Hitherfore doom and deed, Hither with lifted sword,
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: justice wrath of the Lord, come in our visible need,
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: Smite till the throat shall bleed, Smite till the heart
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 1: shall bleed him The tyrannous, lawless, godless echians, earth born seed,
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: other maidens tyrannously hath ye trod marched him in laws,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: despite against thy light, O God yea, and thy mother's
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: light girded him falsely, bold, blinded in craft to quell,
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: and by man's violence, whole things unconquerable, a bacchanal astre,
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: pitiless mind, his death, unto godliness and to feel inhuman
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: kind life, and to pain the less knowledge.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: We are not foes.
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: I seek thee diligently. But the world with a great
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: wind blows shining, and not from the blowing to beautiful
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: things on amid dark and light, till life, through the
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: tremmelings of laws that are not the right, breaks clean
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: and pure and sings glorying to God in the height,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: Oh the chorus. Hitherfore doom and deed, Hither with lifted sword,
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: just as rough of the Lord, come in our visible need.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: Smite till the throat shall bleed, Smite till the heart
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: shall bleed. Him the Tyrannus, lawless, godless, Echion's earth born
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 1: seed leader appeared appear whatso thy shape or name, O
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: mountain bull, snake of the hundred heads, lion of burning flame,
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 1: Oh God, beast, mystery, come thy mystic maids are hunted.
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: Blast the hunter with thy breath cast o'ers had thy
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 1: snat and laugh aloud and drag into his debt. Who
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: stalks thy herded madness in its lag, Enter hastily a
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: messenger from the mountain, pale and distraught, Messenger, Woe to
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 1: the house once blessed in hellas woe to the old
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: king Sidonian who did so. The dragons see on area's
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: bloody leak, alas even thy slaves must weep for thee
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: lead it mus from the mountain, Speak, how hath it sped,
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 1: Messenger Pentheus, my king Echion's son is dead. Lead it all, heil,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: God of the voice manifest evermore, Messenger it, what sayest thou?
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: And how strange thy tone? As thou enjoy it this
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: my master's overthrow? Lead it with fierce joy. I rejoice,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: child of a savage short, for the chains of my
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: prison are broken, and the dread where I coward of
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: your messenger it and deemst thou thieves so beggared, so
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: forlorn of manhood as to sit beneath thy scorne leader
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: thebes hath o me no sway, none save him. Obey Dionysus,
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: child of the highest him, I obey under door, Messenger,
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: one can forgive thee, Yet tis no fair thing maids
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: to rejoice in a man suffering leader. Speak of the mountainside,
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: tell us the doom he died, the sinner smitten to death,
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 1: even where his sin was sore. Messenger. We climbed beyond
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: the utmost habitings of theban shepherds pasted as zopas springs,
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: and struck into the land of rock on dim Kythern
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: Pentheus and attending him I and the stranger who should
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: guide our way. Then first in a green doll we
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: stopped and lay lips dumb and feet unmoving, warily watching
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: to be unseen, and yet to see. A narrow glenet
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: was by crags or tow'd, torn through by tossing waters
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: and their loud the shadow of great pines o'er it.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: And there the minard maidens sate in toil. They woud
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: busily glad, some with an ivy chain track'd a worn
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: wand to toss its locks again. Some wild injoyants, like
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: young steeds set free, made answering songs of mystic melody.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: But my poor master saw not the great band before him.
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: Stranger cried he where we stand. Mine eyes can reach
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: not these false saints of thine monk wi the bank
• 1:36:47
  Speaker 1: or some high shouldered pine, and I shall see their
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: follies cleared. At that there came a marvel where the
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: stranger strait touch'd to great pine trees, high and heavenward
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: crown and lower lower lower urged it down to the
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: herbless floor, round like a bending bow or slow wheel's
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: room adjoiner forces to so in those hands the top
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: and mountain stem bowed slow. Our strength, not mortal, dwelt
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 1: in them to the very earth. And there he said
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: the king, And slowly lest it cast him in its spring,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: let back the young and straining tree till high it
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: towered again amid the towering sky, and pentheus in the branches. Well,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: I ween he saw the maynheads then, and well was seen,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: For scarce was he alof. When suddenly there was no
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: stranger any more with me, but out of heaven a voice,
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: Oh what voice?
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 2: Else?
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: Twas he that called, behold our damosels, I bring ye
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: him who turneth to despite both me and ye, and darkeneth.
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: My great light tis yours to avenge. So spake he,
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: And there came TwixT earth and sky. A pillar of
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: high flame and silence took the air, and no leaf
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: stirred in all the forest. Dell thou hadst not heard
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 1: in that vast silence any wild things cry. And up
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: they sprang, but with bewildered eye agaze and listening scarce
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: yet hearing true. Then came the voice again, And when
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: they knew their God's clear call, Old Cad'mus Royal brood
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: up like wild pigeons, startled in a wood. On flying
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: feet they came his mother, blind Agave and her sisters,
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: and behind all the wild crowd more deeply maddened them
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 1: through the angry rocks and torrent tossing glen, until they
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: spy him in the dark pine tree. Then climbed a
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: crack hard by infuriously, some sort to stone him. Some
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 1: their ones would fling lance wise alot in cruel targeting,
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: but none could strike the height er top their rage.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: And there he clung, unscathed, as in a cage caught,
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: and of all their stripe no end was found. Then
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: hither cried a galvet.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 2: Stand.
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: We round and grip the stem my wild ones till
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: we take this climbing cut of the monk, he shall
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: not make a tale of God's I dances out, then
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: shone arm upon arm, past count, and closed upon the pine,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: and dripped, and the ground gave, and down it reeled.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: And that I set up from the crown of the
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: green pine top with a shrieking cry, fell as his
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: mind grew clear, and there hard by was horror of
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: his Twas his mother stood o'er him first, priestess of
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: those rites of blood. He tore the quake, and from
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: his head away flung it, that she might know him
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: and not slay to her own misery. He touch'd the
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: wild cheek, crying, mother, it is I, thy child, thy
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: pentheus born thee in Echion's hall. Have mercy. Mother, Let
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: it not befall through sin of mine, that thou shalt
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: slay thy son. But she, with lips of foam and
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: eyes that run like leaping fire, with thoughts that ne'er
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: should be on earth, possess'd by baccios, utterly stays not
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: nor hears. Round his left arm, she put both hands,
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 1: sat hard against his side. Her foot drew, and the
• 1:40:47
  Speaker 1: shoulder severed, not by might of arm, but easily as
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: the God made light her hands essayed, and at the
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: other side was eno rending, and the torn cried, and
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: on a turnaway pressed, and all the crowd of ravening arms.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: Yet all the air was loud with groans that faded
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: into sobbing breath, dim shrieks and joy and triumphed cries
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: of death. And here was borne a severed arm. And
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: there are hunter's booted foot, white bones, lay bare, with
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: rending and swift hands, and sanguined tossed as in sport.
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: The flesh of Pentheus dead, His body lies afart. The
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 1: precipice have part and parts in many an interstish lurk
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: of the tangled woodland gno light, questifying, and other head
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: of all the rest. His mother hath it pierced upon
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 1: a wand as one might pierce a lions, and through
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: the land, leaving her sisters in that dancing place, bears
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: it on high yea to these walls. Her face was
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: set exulting in her deed of blood, calling upon her Bromios,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: her God, her comrade fellow, and the prey all victorious,
• 1:42:11
  Speaker 1: to whom this day she bears in triumph her own
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: broken heart. For me, after that sight, I will depart
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: before Agave comes. Oh, to fulfill God's laws, and have
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 1: no thought beyond his will is man's best treasure, high
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: and wisdom. Trumor thinks for things of dust to cleve unto.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 1: The messenger departs into the castle. Chorus. Some maidens weep
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: ye the dance and call praise to God. Bless ye
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: the tyrants fall down, is trod Pentheus, the dragon's seed
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: woar ye, the woman's weed clam us dear's death. Indeed,
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: clasp the rod a baccanal yea, the wild ivy laptem,
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 1: and the doomed wild bull of sacrifice before him loomed. Others, Ye,
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: who did Bromios gone praise him the more Bakana's cat
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: must born. Praise with sore agony, yea, with tears. Great
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 1: are the gifts he bears hands that a mother he
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: has read with gore lead it. But stay a Gave
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: cometh and her eyes make fire around her, reeling. Oh,
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: the prize cometh. All hail are rout of dioneyes enter
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: from the mountain Agave mad and to all, seeming wondrously happy,
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: bearing the head of Pentheus in her hand. The chorus
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: maiden stand horror struck at the sight. The leader, also
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: horror struck, strives to accept it and rejoice.
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 3: In it as the God's deed.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: A garvey, ye from the lens of morn, Lead it,
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 1: call me not I give praise A gavd lo from
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: the trunk new shorn, hither a mountain, thorn, bear, wheat
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: or asia born bacchanals, bless this chase lead it?
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 2: I see, yea I see?
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: Have I not welcomed thee a garvi? Very calmly and peacefully.
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: He was young in the wildwood without nets. I caught him, nay,
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: look without fear on the line I obtain him. Lead it?
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: Where in the wild wood? Where have ye brought him?
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: A gave kither un lead it? Kither run a garb?
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: The mountain nats laying.
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 2: Him lead it?
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: Who first came nigh him a garve? I I tis confessed,
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: and they named me there by him. Agave the blessed leader,
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: who was next in the band, on him a garb.
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: The daughters leadeth the daughters a garvey. A cat must
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: plaid hand on him. But the swift hand that slaughters
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: is mine. Mine is the praise bless ye this day
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 1: of days the leader tries to speak, but is not able.
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: A garvey begins gently stroking the head. A garvey gather
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: ye now to the feast, lead it, feast or miserable.
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: A garvi it see it falls to his breast, curling
• 1:46:08
  Speaker 1: and gently dressed the hair of the wild bull's crest.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: The young steer at the fell, lead it most like
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: a beast of the wild that had those lucks defiled.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: A garb it, lifting up the head more excitedly. He
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: wakened his mad ones A chase God, a wise god.
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  Speaker 1: He sprang them to seize this. He prays, where his
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: band praise lead it, brooding with horror in the trail
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: of thy mad ones. Thou terearst thy prize God, a
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: garb it, just praise it, Leader, I praise this garbg ah.
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  Speaker 1: Soon shall the land praise lead it and pentheus o mother,
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  Speaker 1: thy child A garvig, he shall cry on my name
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  Speaker 1: as none other blessed the spoils of the lion. Lead
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: it aye, strange is thy treasure a garb it, and
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: strange was the taking lead it. Thou art glad a
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  Speaker 1: garb it beyond measure, yea glad in the breaking of
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: dawn upon all this land by the prize, the prize
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  Speaker 1: of my hand, lead it, show them to all the land,
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  Speaker 1: unhappy one, the trophy of this deed that thou hast
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: done a garvid. Oh, oh, ye man that ran the citadel,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: and shine tars of ancient thee be dwell come look
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  Speaker 1: upon this prize, this lion's spoil, that we have taken
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: yea with our own toil, we Cadmus daughters, not with leatherns,
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  Speaker 1: set the salient javelins, not with hunter's net, only white
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: arms and swept hands, bladed fall. Why make ye much
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: ado and boast with all your armorer's engines. See these
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: palms were bare, that caught the angry beast and howled
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: and tear the limbs of him. Father, go bring to me,
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: my father, I an pentheus, where is he, my son?
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: He shall set up a ladder stair against this house,
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: and in the triglyphs that nail me this lion's head,
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: that gloriously I bring ye, having slain him, I even I.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 1: She goes through the crowd towards the castle, showing the
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: head and looking for a place to hang it. Enter
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: from the mountain Cadmus with attendants bearing the body of
• 1:49:07
  Speaker 1: pantheus on a beard cadmus, arm with your awful burden,
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  Speaker 1: follow me thralls to his house, whose body grievously with
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: many a weary search. At last, in dim Kathrein's glens,
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 1: I found torn limb from limb, and through the interweaving
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: forest weed, scattered men told me of my daughter's deed.
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: When I was just returned within these walls with gray
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: tyresius from the bacchanals and back I eyed me to
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: the hills again to seek my murdered sum. There saw
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: my plain Actaeon's mother, ranging where he died, a turn
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: away and Ino by her side, wandering ghastly in the
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: pine cup, says a Gabe.
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 3: Was not that the rumor is?
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: She cometh fleet foot hither h it is true a
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: sight I scarce can band mine eyes unto a Garvey,
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: turning from the palace and seeing him my father, A
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: great boast is thine this hour. Thou hast begotten daughters
• 1:50:16
  Speaker 1: high in power and valiant above all mankind, yea all valiant,
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  Speaker 1: though none like me. I have let fall the shuttle
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: by the loom, and raised my hand for higher things,
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: to slay from out thy lamb wild beasts. See in
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 1: my arms I bare the prize that nailed above these portles.
• 1:50:37
  Speaker 1: It may rise to show what things thy daughters did
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: do thou take it and call a feast. Proud art
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: thou now and highly favored in our valiancy cad must
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 1: oh depth of grief. How can I bothom thee or
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: look upon thee poor poor blood stained hand horses. That's
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: a fair sacrifice to stand before God's altars, Daughter, yegg
• 1:51:06
  Speaker 1: and call me and my citizens to feast withal. Nay,
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  Speaker 1: let me weep for thine affliction most and for mine own.
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  Speaker 1: All All of us are lost, not wrongfully, yet is
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: it hard from one who might have loved our promise
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: us our own ah garvegu how crobed and now scowling
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: in the eyes is man's old age. But that my
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: son likewise were happy of his hunting in my way,
• 1:51:35
  Speaker 1: when with his warrior bands he will, as say the
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: wild beasts. Nay, his valiance is to fight with God's will. Father,
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: Thou should set him right, who no one bring him hither,
• 1:51:48
  Speaker 1: that mine eyes may look on his and show him
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: this my prize. Cadmus alas if ever ye can know
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: again the truth what ye did? What pain of pain
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: that truth shall bring? Or were it best to wake
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: darkened for evermore? And deem your state not misery, though
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: ye know no happiness. A Garvey, What seest thou here
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: to chide or not to bless Cadmus? After hesitation resolving himself,
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: raise me thine eyes to yon blue dome of air?
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: A Garvet tis done? What dost thou bid me seek
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: for there? Cadmus? Is it the same? Or change it?
• 1:52:38
  Speaker 1: In thy sight? A Garved? More shining than before, more
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: heavenly bright, Cadmus, And that wild tremor is it with
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: thee still? A Garvey troubled? I know not what thou sayest,
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: but my will clears, and some change cometh. I know
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: not how Cadmus canst hearken then, being changed and aunts
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: and a a Garved, I have forgotten something else I could, Cadmus,
• 1:53:12
  Speaker 1: what husband led thee of all from mine abode a
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: garbe Echion, whom men called the child of earth Cadmus?
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 1: And what child in Echion's house had birth? A gave
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: pentheus of my love and his father's bread. Cadmus, thou
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: bearest in thine arms and head? What head? A garbd
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 1: beginning to tremble, and not looking at what she carries?
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: A lion's so they all said in the chase, Cadmus
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: turned to it. Now tis no longer toil and gaze
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: a garbd Ah, But what is it? What am a
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: carrying here? Cadmus? Look once upon it full to all
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: be cleared? A Garvey, I see most deadly? Pang, Oh,
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: woe is me, Cadmus? Where is it? The likeness of
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: a lion to the A Garby? No? Tis the head
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: of god of penth? Is this Cadmus? Blood drenched? Thou
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: wouldst know him? Eye? Tis his? A Garvey?
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 2: Who slew him? How came I to hold this thing?
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: Cadmus? O cruel truth? Is this thine homecoming?
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 2: A Garvey? Answer?
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: My heart is hanging on thy breath. Cad must twas
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 1: that thou when thy sisters wrote his dad a garbg
• 1:54:49
  Speaker 1: in what place? Was it his own house? Or where Cadmus?
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: Where the dogs to acting? And even there a Garby?
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: Why went he took her there?
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 2: On? What's so?
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: Tea Cadmus to mock the god and thine own ecstasy?
• 1:55:06
  Speaker 2: A garbag?
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: But how should we be on the hills this day.
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: Cat must being mad, a spirit drove all the lamb
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: back way her garby tis Dionysus had done it. Now
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: I see Cadmus earnestly. Ye wronged him, Ye denied his
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: deity her garb. Turning from him, show me the body
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: of the sun. I love, Cadmus leading her to the beard,
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: tis here my child. Hard was the quest thereof a
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: Garvit laid in due state, as there is no answer.
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: She lifted the veil of the beard and sees, oh,
• 1:55:47
  Speaker 1: if I wrought a sin, twas mine? What portion had
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: my child therein Cadmus? He made him like to you,
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: adoring not the god of therefore to one bain have
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: brought you and this body, wrecking all our line and meat. Aye,
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: no man child was ever mine. And now this first
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 1: brute of the flesh of thee sad woman foully here
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: and frightfully lies murdered whom the house looked up unto
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: kneeling by the body, Oh child, my daughter's child, who
• 1:56:21
  Speaker 1: holdest through my castle walls unto the folk. A name
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 1: of fear thou wast, And no man sought to shame
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: my gray beard when they knew that thou wast there
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: else have they swift reward? And now I fare forth
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: in dishonor outcast I the great Cadmus, who sowed the
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: seed rows of this state of deeds and reaped the
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: harvest wonderful.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, my beloved, Though thy heart is dull in death,
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 4: oh still beloved and always beloved, Never more than shalt
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 4: thou lay thine hand to this white beard and speak
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 4: to me thy mother's far the ask who wrongeth thee
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 4: who stints thine honor or with malistirs thine heart speak,
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 4: and I smite thine injuries.
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: But now whoa whoa to me? And THEE also woe
• 1:57:15
  Speaker 1: to thy mother and her sisters? Whoa? Ah way, Oh
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: so walketh not in dread of God let him but
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: look on this man, Dad lead it. Lo, I weep
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: with thee twas, but you reward God, Saint Tom Panteus.
• 1:57:30
  Speaker 1: But pathet tis hard a gave my father that can't
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: see the change in me. A page or more has
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: been torn out of the manuscript from which all that
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: copies of the Back Eye are derived. It evidently contained
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: a speech of Agave, followed presumably by some words of
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: the chorus and an appearance of Dionysus upon a cloud.
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: He must have pronounced judgment upon the Thebans in general,
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: and especially upon the daughters of Cadmus, have justified his
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: own action and declared his determination to establish his godhead.
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 1: Where the manuscript begins again, we find him addressing Cadmus Dionysus,
• 1:58:25
  Speaker 1: and tell of time what gifts for thee he bears,
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: what griefs and wonders in the winding years. For thou
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: must change and be a serpent thing strange and beside Thee,
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: she whom thou didst bring of old, to be thy
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: bride from heaven, a harmonia, daughter of the Lord of
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: war yea, and a chariot of kind. So spake the
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: word of Zeus. Thee and thy queen shall take through
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: many lands, Lord of a wild array of orience, fears,
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: and many towns shall they destroy beneath Thee, that vast horde,
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 1: until they touch Apollus, dwelling and fulfill their doom. Back,
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 1: driven on stormy ways and steep the only and thy
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: spouse shall heirs keep and save alive to the islands
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 1: of the blessed. Thus speakth Dionysus, son confessed of no man,
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: but of Zeus.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 2: Ah.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: Had ye seen truth in the hour, ye would not
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 1: all had been well with ye and the child of God,
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: your friend A govert, Dionysus. We beseech thee we have sent,
• 1:59:40
  Speaker 1: Dionysus too late, when there was time ye knew me,
• 1:59:43
  Speaker 1: not a govet we have confessed. Yet is thine and
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 1: too hot, Dionysus, ye mocked me, being God, this is
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: your wage, a govert. Should God be like a proud
• 1:59:59
  Speaker 1: man in his tray. Dionysus tears as my sire Zeus
• 2:00:06
  Speaker 1: willed it long ago, a garb it, turning from him
• 2:00:11
  Speaker 1: almost with disdain. Oh man, the word is spoken. We
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 1: must go, Dionysus, and seeing ye must what is it
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: that ye wait, cad Mus, child, We are coming to
• 2:00:26
  Speaker 1: a deadly strait, all thou poor sufferer, and thy sisters twain,
• 2:00:32
  Speaker 1: and my sad self far up to barbarous men, a
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: gray haired wonderer. I must take my road, and then
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: the oracle the doom of God, that I must lead
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: a raging horde far flown to prey on hellas lead
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: my spows mine own Harmonia heir as child, distoperate and
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: haunting forms dragon and dragon mate against the tombs and
• 2:00:59
  Speaker 1: altust owns of Greece. Lance upon lance behind us, and
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: not cease from toils like other men, nor dream nor
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: past the foam of Acharon. Find my peace at last
• 2:01:13
  Speaker 1: a garbg father, and I must wander far from thee. Cadmus, Oh, child,
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: why wilt thou reach thine arms to me? As yearns
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: the milk white swan, when old swans died, her garb It,
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: Where shall I turn me else? No home have I, Cadmus,
• 2:01:33
  Speaker 1: I know not I can help thee, not her garb It.
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: Farewellow home, o ancient tat lo, I am outcast from
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 1: my bowert and leave ye for a worse lot. Cadmus,
• 2:01:46
  Speaker 1: go forth, go forth to misery, the way Actaeon's father
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 1: went her garvid Father, for thee. My tears have spent.
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: Cad must nay, child, because I must weep for THEE,
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: for thee, and for thy sisters. Twain her garvid On,
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 1: all this house in bitter wise, our lord and master
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: dionys hath poured the utter dregs of pain. Dionysus in
• 2:02:14
  Speaker 1: bitter wise, for bitter was the shame ye did me
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: when thebes honored, not my name her Garvid. Then lead
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: me where my sisters be together, Let our tears be shed,
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: our ways be wander'd. When a red kithererin waits to
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: gaze on me, nor I gaze back ne thir sus stem,
• 2:02:36
  Speaker 1: nor song nor memory. In the ad O other baccanals
• 2:02:40
  Speaker 1: be there, not I not I to dream of them.
• 2:02:44
  Speaker 1: A garvet with a group of attendants goes out on
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: the side, away from the mountain. Dionysus rises upon the
• 2:02:53
  Speaker 1: cloud and disappears chorus. There be many shapes of mystery,
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: and many things God makes to be past hope or
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: for it. And the end men looketh for cometh not.
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: And a path is there when no man thought so
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: has it fallen?
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 2: Here?
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 1: Exeent and of Chapter two and of the Back Eye
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 1: by Euripides, transplated by Gilbert Murray.
• 2:03:40
  Speaker 3: Notes on the Back Eye by Gilbert Murray.
• 2:03:45
  Speaker 1: This Libribox recording is in the public domain. Recording by
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 1: Tony Addison notes on the Back Eye an introductory note.
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 1: The a Backaye being from one point of view, a
• 2:04:03
  Speaker 1: religious drama, a kind of mystery plague is full of
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 1: illusions both to the myth and to the religion of Dionysus.
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 1: One the myth, as implied by Euripides, Semele, daughter of Cadmus,
• 2:04:24
  Speaker 1: being loved by Zeus, asked her divine lover to appear
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: to her once in his full glory. He came a
• 2:04:34
  Speaker 1: blaze of lightning, in the ecstasy of which Semele died,
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: giving premature birth to a son. Zeus, to save this
• 2:04:45
  Speaker 1: child's life and make him truly God as well as man,
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: tore open his own flesh, and therein fostered the child,
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: till in due time, by a miraculous and mysterious second birth,
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: the child of Semele came to full life as God. Two.
• 2:05:08
  Speaker 1: The religion of Dionysus is hard to formulate or even describe,
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 1: both because of its composite origins and because of its
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: condition of constant vitality, fluctuation, and development. A The first datum, apparently,
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: is the introduction from Thrace of the characteristic god of
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: the wild northern mountains, a god of intoxication, of inspiration,
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 1: a giver of superhuman or immortal life. His worship is
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: superposed upon that of diverse, old, tree or vegetation gods
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: already worshiped in Greece. He becomes r actually the god
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 1: of the vine. Originally a god of the common folk,
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: despised and unauthorized, he is eventually so strong as to
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 1: be adopted into the Olympian hierarchy as the youngest of
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 1: the gods, son of Zeus. His Olympian name, so to speak,
• 2:06:26
  Speaker 1: is Dionysus. But in his worship he is addressed.
• 2:06:31
  Speaker 3: By numbers of names, more or.
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: Less mystic and secret Bromios, Bacchios or Bachaeus, Jakos, Eleuthercus, Zagreus, Zabarzios,
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: et cetera. Some of these may be the names of
• 2:06:57
  Speaker 1: old spirits whom he has displaced. Some are his own
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: Thracian names. Bromas and Sabajah, for instance, seem to have
• 2:07:09
  Speaker 1: been Thracian names for two kinds of intoxicating drink. A
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: Baccos means a wand together with his many names, he
• 2:07:22
  Speaker 1: has many shapes, especially appearing as a bull and a serpent.
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: B This religion, very primitive and barbarous, but possessing a
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: stronghold over the emotions of the common people, was seized
• 2:07:43
  Speaker 1: upon and transfigured by the great wave of religious reform
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 1: known under the name of Orphism, which swept over Greece
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: and South Italy in the sixth century b c. And
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: influence the teachings of such philosophers as A. Pythagoras, Aristaeus, Empedocles,
• 2:08:08
  Speaker 1: and the many writers on purification and the world after death.
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: Orphism may very possibly represent an ancient Treutan religion in
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 1: clash or fusion with one from Thrace. At any rate,
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: it was grafted straight upon the Dionysus worship and without rationalizing,
• 2:08:34
  Speaker 1: spiritualized and reformed it Ascetic, mystical, ritualistic, and emotional Orphism
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 1: easily excited both enthusiasm and ridicule. It lent itself both
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 1: to inspired santhness and to imposture. In doctrine, it laid
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 1: a special stress upon sin and the saccadotal purification of sin,
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: on the eternal reward due beyond the grabe to the
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: pure and the impure, The pure living in an eternal
• 2:09:19
  Speaker 1: ecstasy perpetual intoxication, as Plato satirically calls it, the impure
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: toiling through long ages to wash out their stains. It
• 2:09:34
  Speaker 1: recast in various ways the myth of Dionysus, and especially
• 2:09:41
  Speaker 1: the story of his second birth. All true worshipers become
• 2:09:48
  Speaker 1: in a mystical sense one with the God, they are
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: born again, and arbaccoid Dionysus, being the God within the
• 2:10:00
  Speaker 1: perfectly pure soul, is possessed by the God Holy and
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: becomes nothing but the God. Based on very primitive rights
• 2:10:11
  Speaker 1: and feelings, on the religion of men who made their
• 2:10:15
  Speaker 1: gods in the images of snakes and bulls and fawns,
• 2:10:20
  Speaker 1: because they hardly felt any difference of kind between themselves
• 2:10:24
  Speaker 1: and the animals. The worship of Dionysus kept always this
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 1: feeling of kinship with wild things. The beautiful side of
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: this feeling is vividly conspicuous in the back eye, and
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: the horrible side is not in the least concealed. A
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: curious relic of primitive superstition and cruelty remained firmly embedded
• 2:10:51
  Speaker 1: in orphism, a doctrine irrational and unintelligible, and for that
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 1: very reason wrapped in the deepest and most sacred mystery,
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  Speaker 1: a belief in the sacrifice of Dionysus himself and the
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  Speaker 1: purification of man by his blood. It seems possible that
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  Speaker 1: the savage Thracians, in the fury of their worship on
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  Speaker 1: the mountains, when they were possessed by the God and
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  Speaker 1: became wild beasts actually tore with their teeth and hands
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  Speaker 1: any hares, goats, fawns.
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  Speaker 3: Or the like that they came across.
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  Speaker 1: There survives a constant tradition of inspired bacchanals, in their
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  Speaker 1: miraculous strength, tearing even bulls asunder a feat happily beyond
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  Speaker 1: the bounds of human possibility. The wild beast that tore was,
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  Speaker 1: of course the savage God himself, and by one of
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  Speaker 1: those curious confusions of thought which seems so inconceivable to
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  Speaker 1: us and so absolutely natural and obvious to primitive men,
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  Speaker 1: the beast torn was also the God. The awful congregations
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  Speaker 1: of later times, in their most holy gatherings, solemnly partook
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  Speaker 1: of the blood of a bull, which was, by a mystery,
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  Speaker 1: the blood of Dionysus Zagreus himself, the bull of God
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  Speaker 1: slain in sacrifice for the purification of man. And the
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  Speaker 1: minads of poetry and myth, among more beautiful proofs of
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  Speaker 1: their superhuman or infre human character, have always to tear
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  Speaker 1: bulls in pieces and taste of the blood. It is
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  Speaker 1: noteworthy and throws much light on the spirit of orphism, that,
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  Speaker 1: apart from this sacramental tasting of the blood. The orphic
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  Speaker 1: worshiper held it an abomination to eat the flesh of
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  Speaker 1: animals at all. The same religious fervor and zeal for
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  Speaker 1: purity which made him reject the pollution of animal food
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  Speaker 1: made him at the same time cling to a ceremonial
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  Speaker 1: which would utterly discuss the ordinary hardened flesh eater. It
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  Speaker 1: fascinated him just because it was so incredibly primitive and uncanny,
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  Speaker 1: because it was a mystery which transcended reason. It will
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  Speaker 1: be observed that Euripides, though certainly familiar with orphism, which
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  Speaker 1: he mentions in the Hippolytus and treated at length in
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  Speaker 1: the Treatons see Appendix, has in the Back Eye, gone
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  Speaker 1: back behind orphism to the more primitive stuff from which
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  Speaker 1: it was made. He has little reference to any specially
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  Speaker 1: orphic doctrine, not a word, for instance, about the immortality
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  Speaker 1: of the soul, and his idealization or spiritualization of Dionysus
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  Speaker 1: worship proceeds along the lines of his own thought, not
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  Speaker 1: on those already fixed by the orphic teachers, and
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  Speaker 3: Of notes on the Back Eye by Gilbert Murray