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Speaker 1: Section three of the Oristea. This is a LibriVox recording.
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Speaker 1: Oristea by Eschylus, translated by E. D. A. Moore'shead, Section three,
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Speaker 1: The Libation Bearers, Part one. The scene is the tomb
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Speaker 1: of Agamemnon at Mycenae. Afterwards the palace of Atreus hard
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Speaker 1: by the tomb.
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Speaker 2: Lord of the shades and patron of the realm that
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Speaker 2: erst my father swayed. List now my prayer, Hermes, and
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Speaker 2: save me with thine aiding arm me who from banishment
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Speaker 2: returning stand on this my country. Lo my foot is
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Speaker 2: set on this grave mound and herald like as thou.
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Speaker 2: Once and again I bid my father hear, And these
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Speaker 2: twin locks from mine head shorn I bring, and once
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Speaker 2: Inachus the river, God, my young life's nurturer, I dedicate,
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Speaker 2: and one and sign of mourning unfulfilled, I lay though
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Speaker 2: late on this my father's grave, for O my father,
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Speaker 2: not beside thy course stood I to wail thy death,
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Speaker 2: Nor was my hand stretched out to bear thee forth
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Speaker 2: the burial. What sight is yonder what this woman throng
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Speaker 2: hitherwarth coming by their sable guard, made manifest as mourners,
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Speaker 2: What hath chanced does some new sorrow hap within the home?
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Speaker 2: Or rightly may I deem that they draw nearer, bearing
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Speaker 2: my batience, such as soothe the ire of dead men
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Speaker 2: angered to my father's grave. Nay, such they are, indeed,
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Speaker 2: for I descry Electra, mine own sister, pacing hither in
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Speaker 2: moody grief, conspicuous grant o zeus, grant me my father's
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Speaker 2: murder to avenge be thou my willing shap Champion pilots
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Speaker 2: pass we aside till rightly I discern wherefore these women
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Speaker 2: throng in suppliance.
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Speaker 1: Pilotes and Arrestes exit enter the chorus, bearing vessels for libation.
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Speaker 1: Electra follows them. They pace slowly towards the tomb of Agamemnon,
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Speaker 1: forth from.
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Speaker 3: The royal holes by high command. Their libations for the
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Speaker 3: dead rings on my smitten breast, my mighting hand, and
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Speaker 3: all my cheek is rent and red fresh furrows by
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Speaker 3: my nails, and all my soul. This is many a
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Speaker 3: day on speed, on cries of dole and of my
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Speaker 3: vest in looped and windowed raggedness, forlorn, having rent around
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Speaker 3: my breast, even as sigh by blows of fate, most
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Speaker 3: stern saddened and torn a regular through visions ghastly clear,
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Speaker 3: bearing a blast of wrath from realms below, and stiffening
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Speaker 3: each rising hair with dread came out of the dreamland.
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Speaker 3: Fear and loud and awful bade the shriek ring out,
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Speaker 3: and at midnight's witching hour, and and brooded stirred with
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Speaker 3: woe Above the inner house the women's bower and seers
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Speaker 3: inspired did read the dream on oath, chanting aloud in
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Speaker 3: realms below the dead or wrath against their their slayers. Yes,
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Speaker 3: there Dot Low, therefore to bear this gift of graceless words,
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Speaker 3: Oh Earth, my nursing mother, women, God, a cursed dot,
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Speaker 3: send me less one one right ring, not another ill.
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Speaker 3: It is a very word to speak, for none can
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Speaker 3: ransom or atone for blood, one one shed and starkening
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Speaker 3: the plane pain, Oh state that low Dot lie sunless,
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Speaker 3: accursed of men. The shadows rude above the home of
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Speaker 3: a murdered majesty, rumor might unquestioned, unsurbued, per baily, ears
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Speaker 3: and soul of lesser men is silent now and then
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Speaker 3: yet rousing violent dread for bliss. And however, however one
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Speaker 3: one as God and more than God's dazzle, our mortal
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Speaker 3: can justice doth mark with scales that swiftly's sway. Some
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Speaker 3: that are yet in light, others interspace of day and night,
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Speaker 3: till aroused them stay, and some are lapsed in night,
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Speaker 3: where all things are done on the life giving lap
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Speaker 3: of earth. Blood has flowed forth, and now the seed
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Speaker 3: of vengeance class the plane, unmelted, unaffaced the stain, and
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Speaker 3: I take harry long. But at the last the sinner's
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Speaker 3: heart is cast into pervading, waxing pangs of pain. No,
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Speaker 3: when man's force starts ope the virgin doors, there is
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Speaker 3: nor cure nor hope for what is lost. Though in
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Speaker 3: one channel ran earth every stream, laying the land of
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Speaker 3: the wild from murders, stain it were vain, and the
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Speaker 3: God had laid the woe that wraps around Troy. But
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Speaker 3: what they lay down from home, and until employ the
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Speaker 3: doom to bow head and watch our masters will were
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Speaker 3: of good and ill, ill to see the headlong way
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Speaker 3: of force and sin, and hold restrained the spirit's bitter hate,
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Speaker 3: wailing the monarch's fruitless fate, hiding face within my robe,
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Speaker 3: and and fain of tears, and chilled with frost of hidden.
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Speaker 4: Pain, handmaidens orders of the palace halls. Since at my
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Speaker 4: side ye come a supply, and train companions of this offering,
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Speaker 4: counsel me as best befits the time for I who
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Speaker 4: pour upon the grave these streams funeral with what fair
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Speaker 4: word can I evoke my sire? Shall I over behold
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Speaker 4: I bear these gifts from well beloved wife, unto her
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Speaker 4: well beloved Lord, When tis from her my mother, that
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Speaker 4: they come, I dare not say, of all words I
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Speaker 4: fail wherewith to consecrate unto my sire these sacrificial honors
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Speaker 4: on his grave. Or shall I speak this word as
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Speaker 4: mortals use give back to those who send these coronal
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Speaker 4: full recompense of ills for axemline. Or shall I pour
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Speaker 4: this draft for earth to drink, sans word or reverence?
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Speaker 4: As my sire was slain and homeward passed with unreverted eyes,
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Speaker 4: casting the bowl away, as one who flings the household
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Speaker 4: cleansings to the common road, be art and part o friends.
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Speaker 4: And this my doubt, even as ye are in that
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Speaker 4: one common hate whereby we live attended. Fear ye not
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Speaker 4: the wrath of any man, Nor hide your word within
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Speaker 4: your breast. The day of death and doom awaits alike
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Speaker 4: the freemen and the slave speak. Then if aught thou
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Speaker 4: knowest to aid us more, Thou.
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Speaker 3: Biddest I will speak my soul that's out revering as
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Speaker 3: a shrine.
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Speaker 4: Thy grave say, Then thy say, as thou his tomb reverest.
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Speaker 3: The words to them that love and poor.
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Speaker 4: And of his kin. Whom dare I name is kind.
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Speaker 3: Thyself, and the next whoever ages.
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Speaker 4: And tis myself, and thou my prayer must name.
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Speaker 3: Whoever may be design to know and name them?
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Speaker 4: Is there no other we may claim as ours?
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Speaker 3: Think of other? Though far off he be right?
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Speaker 4: Well in this too, hast thou schooled my thought mind fully?
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Speaker 3: Next are those who shed the blood.
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Speaker 4: Pray on them? What expound instruct my doubt?
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Speaker 3: This upon them? Some God or mortal, Come.
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Speaker 4: As judge or as avenger, speak thy thought, prayer set terms.
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Speaker 3: Who all does this lay slay?
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Speaker 4: Beseemeth it to ask such boon of heaven to wrong?
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Speaker 4: O Mighty Hermes, warder of the shade, Herald of upper
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Speaker 4: and under world, proclaim and usher down my prayers. Appeal
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Speaker 4: unto the gods below, that they, with eyes watchful behold
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Speaker 4: these halls, my sires of old and unto earth, the
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Speaker 4: mother of all things, and fosterners and womb that takes
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Speaker 4: their seed. Lo I that pour these drafts for men
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Speaker 4: now dead. Call on my father, who yet holds in
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Speaker 4: ruth me and mine own orestes. Father speak, how shall
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Speaker 4: thy children rule thine hauls again? Homeless? We are and sold?
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Speaker 4: And she who sould is she who bore us, And
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Speaker 4: the price she took is he who join'd with her
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Speaker 4: to work thy death. Adjist this her new lord. Behold
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Speaker 4: me here, brought down to slave's estate, and far away
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Speaker 4: wanders Orestes, banished from the wealth that once was thine,
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Speaker 4: the prophet of thy care, whereon these revel in a
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Speaker 4: shameful joy. Father, My prayer is, said, tis thine to hear,
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Speaker 4: Grant that some fair fate bring Orestes home, and unto me,
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Speaker 4: grant these a purer soul than is my mother, a
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Speaker 4: more stainless hand. These be my prayers for us for
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Speaker 4: thee O sire, I cry that one may come to
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Speaker 4: smite thy foes and that the slayers may in turn
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Speaker 4: be slain. Cursed is their prayer. And thus I bar
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Speaker 4: its path, praying mine own a counter curse on them.
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Speaker 4: And thou send up to us the righteous boon for
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Speaker 4: which we pray. Thine aids be heaven and earth, and
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Speaker 4: just as guide the right to victory.
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Speaker 1: Electra addresses the chorus.
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Speaker 4: Thus I have prayed, and thus I shed these streams
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Speaker 4: and follow ye the wont And as with flowers, crown
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Speaker 4: ye with many a tear and cry the dirge your
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Speaker 4: lips wring out above the dead man's grave.
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Speaker 1: She pours the libations woe, woe.
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Speaker 3: Woe, woe. Let the plashing ground where our lord lie
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Speaker 3: low falland fends. We're in together, gifts of good or
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Speaker 3: bain from the dead are found. Lord of Dargos, hearken,
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Speaker 3: dar Darken, misst of death and hell. Arise and hear,
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Speaker 3: hearken and awaken to our cry of woe, Who with
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Speaker 3: might of speed deliver, Who like an until the northern,
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Speaker 3: who with upon the hill hilled himself, will thrust ust with.
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Speaker 4: Thrust and lay and save your drinks them to my
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Speaker 4: sire they pass. Learn you with me of this thing
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Speaker 4: new and strange.
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Speaker 3: Speak thou my breast, pate with with you.
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Speaker 4: I see on the tomb a curl new shorn.
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Speaker 3: Shorn from west Man. Or what deep gird is made?
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Speaker 4: That may he guess? Who will? The sign is plain?
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Speaker 3: Let me learn this, Let's use problems age.
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Speaker 4: None is there here but I to clip such gift
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Speaker 4: for they.
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Speaker 3: Who should mourn him, hate him, sore.
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Speaker 4: And lo in truth the hair exceedingly like like like
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Speaker 4: what loss and lose instructs me that, like into those
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Speaker 4: my father's children.
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Speaker 3: Were, then is lock is the secret gift?
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Speaker 4: Most like? It is unto the curls he wore.
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Speaker 3: It's how he to come onto his home he hath.
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Speaker 4: But sent it clipped more in his sire it is.
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Speaker 3: Death that he should live. Yet never dare return?
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Speaker 4: Yeay, And my heart overflows with golf of grief, And
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Speaker 4: I am pierced as with a cleaving dart, like to
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Speaker 4: the first drop after drought. My tears fall down at will,
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Speaker 4: a bitter bursting tide, as on this lock I gaze.
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Speaker 4: I cannot deem that any archive, save Oreste's self, was
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Speaker 4: ever lord thereof nor well I WoT hath she the murderess,
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Speaker 4: shorn and laid this lock to mourn him whom she
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Speaker 4: slew my mother, she bearing no mother's heart, but to
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Speaker 4: her race a loathing spirit, loathed itself of heaven, yet
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Speaker 4: to affirm as utterly made sure that this adornment cometh
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Speaker 4: of the hand of mine orestes, brother of my soul.
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Speaker 4: I may not venture, yet hope flatters fare ah well
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Speaker 4: a day that this dumb hare had voice to glad
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Speaker 4: mine ears, as might a messenger biding me sway no
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Speaker 4: more TwixT fear and hope, clearly commanding cast me. Hence
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Speaker 4: away clipped was I from some head thou lovest not,
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Speaker 4: or I am kin to thee. And here as thou
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Speaker 4: I come to weep and deck our father's grave, aid
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Speaker 4: me ye Gods for well. Indeed, ye know how in
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Speaker 4: the gale and countergate of doubt, like to the seamen's bark,
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Speaker 4: we whirl and stray. But if God will our life,
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Speaker 4: how strong shall spring from seed? How small the new
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Speaker 4: tree of our home? Lo Ye a second sign, These
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Speaker 4: footsteps look like to my own a corresponsive print. And
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Speaker 4: look another footmark, this his own, and that the foot
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Speaker 4: of one who walked with him, mark how the heel
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Speaker 4: and tendon's print combined measured exact with mine, coincident alas
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Speaker 4: for doubt and anguish.
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Speaker 1: Rack my mind, arrestes approaches.
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Speaker 2: Suddenly pray thou ingratitude for prayers, fulfilled fare fall the
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Speaker 2: rest of what I ask of heaven.
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Speaker 4: Wherefore what win I from the gods by prayer?
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Speaker 2: This that thine eyes behold thy heart's desire on.
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Speaker 4: Whom of mortals? Knowest thou that I call?
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Speaker 2: I know thy yearning for arrestees?
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Speaker 4: Deep Say then, wherein event hath crowned my prayer?
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Speaker 3: Ay?
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Speaker 2: I am he seek not one more akin.
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Speaker 4: Some fraud O stranger. Weavest thou for.
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Speaker 2: Me against myself? I weave it.
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Speaker 4: If I weave ah, thou hast mine to mock me
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Speaker 4: in my woe.
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Speaker 2: Tis at mine own I mock then mocking.
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Speaker 4: Thine speak I with thee Then as arrestees self.
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Speaker 2: My very face, thou seest and knowest me not. And yet,
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Speaker 2: but now, when thou didst see the lock shorn for
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Speaker 2: thy father's grave, and when thy quest was eager on
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Speaker 2: the footprints I had made, even I thy brother shaped
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Speaker 2: and sized as thou fluttered thy spirit as at sight
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Speaker 2: of me lay now this ringlet whence twas shorn and judge,
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Speaker 2: and look upon this robe thine own hands work the shuttle,
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Speaker 2: prince the creature wrought thereon. Refrain thyself nor prudence lose
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Speaker 2: in joy, for well I want our kin are less
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Speaker 2: than kind, Oh thou that.
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Speaker 4: Art unto our father's home, Love, grief and hope for THEE.
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Speaker 4: The tears ran down for THEE the sun the savior
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Speaker 4: that should be Trust thou thine arm and win thy
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Speaker 4: father's hauls o aspects sweet of fourfold love to me
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Speaker 4: whom upon THEE the heart's constrain bids call as on
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Speaker 4: my father. And the claim of love from me unto
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Speaker 4: my mother turns to THEE, for she is very hate
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Speaker 4: to THEE. Two turns. What of my heart went out
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Speaker 4: to her who died a ruthless death upon the altar stone.
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Speaker 4: And for myself I love THEE, THEE that wast a
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Speaker 4: brother leal sole stay of love to me. Now by
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Speaker 4: thy side be strength and right, and Zeus, Savior Almighty,
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Speaker 4: stand to ape the twain Zeus.
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Speaker 2: Zeus look down on our estate and us the orphan
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Speaker 2: brood of him, our eagle sire, whom to his death
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Speaker 2: a fearful serpent brought and winding him in coils, and
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Speaker 2: we bereft and foodless, sink with famine, all too weak
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Speaker 2: to bear unto the eyrie as he bore such quarry
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Speaker 2: as he slew. Lo I and she Electra stand before
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Speaker 2: thee fatherless, and each alike cast out an homeless maid.
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Speaker 4: And if thou leave to death the brute of him
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Speaker 4: whose altar blaze for thee whose reverence was thine, all thine.
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Speaker 4: Whence in the after years shall any hand like his
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Speaker 4: adorn thy shrine with sacrifice of flesh the eaglets slain,
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Speaker 4: thou wouldst have a messenger to bear thine omens once
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Speaker 4: so clear to mortal men. So if this kingly stock
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Speaker 4: be withered, all none on high festivals will fend thy shrine.
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Speaker 4: Stoop thou to raise us strong. The race shall show
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Speaker 4: thou puny now it seems, and fallen low. O, children,
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Speaker 4: saviors of your father's home, Beware ye of your words,
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Speaker 4: lest one should hear and bear them.
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Speaker 3: But a tong hath lust to tell unto our masters,
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Speaker 3: whom in pit ye please you to see.
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Speaker 2: Nay Mighty is Apollo's oracle and shall not fail me,
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Speaker 2: whom it bade to pass through all this peril clear.
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Speaker 2: The voice rang out with many warnings, sternly threatening to
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Speaker 2: my hot heart the wintry chill of pain, unless upon
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Speaker 2: the slayers of my sire I pressed for vengeance. This
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Speaker 2: is the God's command, that I, an ire for home
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Speaker 2: and wealth, despoil'd, should with a craft like theirs the
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Speaker 2: slayers slay else, with my very life, I should atone
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Speaker 2: this deed undone in many a ghastly wise. For he
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Speaker 2: proclaim'd unto the ears of men, that offerings poured to
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Speaker 2: angry power of death exude again, unless there will be
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Speaker 2: done as grim disease on those that poured them forth,
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Speaker 2: as leprous ulcers, mounting on the flesh, and with fell
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Speaker 2: fangs corroding what of old worn natural form, and on
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Speaker 2: the brow arise white poisoned hairs the crown of this disease.
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Speaker 2: He spake moreover, of assailing fiends and power to quit
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Speaker 2: on me my father's blood, wreaking their wrath on me.
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Speaker 2: What time in night beneath shut lids, the spirit's eye
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Speaker 2: sees clear the dart that flies in darkness, sped from
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Speaker 2: hell by spirits of the murdered dead, who call unto
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Speaker 2: their kin for vengeance, formless fear, the night tide's visitant
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Speaker 2: and madness's curse should drive and rack me, and my
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Speaker 2: tortured frame should be chased forth from man's community, as
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Speaker 2: with the brazen scorpions of the scourge. For me and
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Speaker 2: such as me, no lustral bowl should stand. No spils
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Speaker 2: of wine be poured to God for me, and wrath
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Speaker 2: unseen of my dead sire should drive me from the shrine.
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Speaker 2: No man should dare to take me to his hearth,
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Speaker 2: nor dwell with me. Slow, friendless, cursed of all should
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Speaker 2: be mine. End and pitiless horror wind me for the grave.
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Speaker 2: This spake the God. This dare I disobey? Yea though
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Speaker 2: I dared, the deed must yet be done, for to
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Speaker 2: that end divers desires combine the God's behest deep grief
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Speaker 2: for him who died, and last the grievous blank of
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Speaker 2: wealth despoil'd. All these weigh on me urge that argued
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Speaker 2: men minions of valor, who with soul of fire did
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Speaker 2: make of fence troy a ruinous heap, be not left
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Speaker 2: slaves to two in each a woman, for he the
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Speaker 2: man wears woman's heart. If not soon shall he know,
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Speaker 2: confronted by a.
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Speaker 1: Man orestes Electra and the chorus gather round the tomb
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Speaker 1: of Agamemnon for the invocation which follows.
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Speaker 3: Mighty fates on you. You, we call bid the duill
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Speaker 3: ol zeus, or to gain power to do doze, to
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Speaker 3: whom again justice turns with hand and aid. Grievous was
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Speaker 3: the prayer on one maid, greevous lest the ants fall,
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Speaker 3: where the mighty doo mis set. Justice claims aloud her
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Speaker 3: that who in blood hath dipped the steel deep in
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Speaker 3: blood her me shall shall feel list an immemorial word.
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Speaker 3: Whosoever shall take this sword shall perish.
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Speaker 2: By the sword Father, unblest in death, O Father, Mine,
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Speaker 2: what breath of word or deed can I waft on
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Speaker 2: thee from this far confine? Unto thy lowly bed waft
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Speaker 2: upon thee in midst of darkness lying Hope's counter gleam
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Speaker 2: of fire. Yet the loud dirge of praise brings grace
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Speaker 2: undying unto each parted.
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Speaker 3: Sire, Oh child, the spirit of the dead, although upon
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Speaker 3: his flesh have fed to the teeth of the flame,
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Speaker 3: it is well not after many days the sting of
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Speaker 3: wrath his soul shall raise engines to lane to the dead,
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Speaker 3: dead rings loud our cry, plain, the living street tree swelling, shwiling,
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Speaker 3: urged down high, the vengeful dirge. For parents shall strive
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Speaker 3: and shall pain.
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Speaker 4: Hear me too, even me, o father. Here not by
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Speaker 4: one child alone, these groans, these tears are shed upon
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Speaker 4: thy suppulcher. Each each where thou art lowly laid, stands
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Speaker 4: a supply and homeless maid. Ah, And all is full
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Speaker 4: of ill comfort. Is there none to say, strive and
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Speaker 4: rustle as we may still stands doom invincible?
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Speaker 3: Nay, If so he will, the god still our tears
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Speaker 3: to enjoy, can't turn, he can bid a triumph. Ode
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Speaker 3: drowned the dirge beside this urn he to kingle, the
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Speaker 3: the tall restor'd the homeward guided feet.
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Speaker 4: Ah.
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Speaker 2: My father hadst thou lain under Ilian's wall by some
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Speaker 2: Lycian spearmen slain, Thou hadst left in this thine hall
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Speaker 2: honor Thou hadst brought for us fame and life most
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Speaker 2: glorious oversees. If thou hadst died heavily had stood thy
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Speaker 2: tomb keep'd on high, but quenched in pride grief were
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Speaker 2: light unto thy.
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Speaker 3: Home loved and honor hast thou lain by the dead,
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Speaker 3: that that nobly fail in the ill world. Again, where
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Speaker 3: are throned the kings of hell fully adorable Thou hast
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Speaker 3: stood at thy right hand, Thou that vert in mortal
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Speaker 3: land by faith, ordinance and awe, king of kings who
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Speaker 3: bare the crown and the staff to which in all
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Speaker 3: mortal man.
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Speaker 4: Nay o father, I were fain, other fate had fallen
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Speaker 4: on thee. If it were I, thou hadn't slain one
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Speaker 4: among the common slain fallen by his commander's side. Those
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Speaker 4: who slew thee there should be then untouched by slavery.
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Speaker 4: We had heard us from afar deaths of those who
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Speaker 4: would have died mid the chance of war.
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Speaker 3: Oh forbear things, Oh hi, thou sayest easy, but vain
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Speaker 3: thy cry a boon all gold is that thou priest
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Speaker 3: an unreached dey as of the blessed land that far
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Speaker 3: aloof beyond the north wind lies Ye doth your double
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Speaker 3: prao A double school sighs awakes the dead, the avengers right.
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Speaker 3: The lace blood stains the guilty pride of the churst
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Speaker 3: who roll on earth, and fate stands under the children's.
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Speaker 4: Side, that hath sped through mine ears like a shaft
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Speaker 4: from a bow. Zeus, Zeus, it is thou who dost
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Speaker 4: send from below a doom on the desperate doer, ere
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Speaker 4: long on a mother. A father shall visit his wrong,
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Speaker 4: be mine.
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Speaker 3: To upgrade through the reek of the higher, the chance
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Speaker 3: of the light, while all the view fire the virus
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Speaker 3: horse of a man, man that is slain, and the
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Speaker 3: feel itla hate thro my soul, and the vision and
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Speaker 3: vain bless send and ways.
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Speaker 2: To and fro zeus, though alone to us art parent,
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Speaker 2: now smite with a rending blow upon their heads, and
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Speaker 2: bid the land be well set right where wrong hath stood.
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Speaker 2: And thou give ear o Earth, unto my prayer, yea
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Speaker 2: hero mother Earth and monarchy of hell.
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Speaker 4: Nay, the law is.
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Speaker 3: Blood shed the ground plead loud, the column of death,
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Speaker 3: that sound calling all the beaury, crowning crime with crime.
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Speaker 4: Where where are ye avenging powers, precinct furies of the slain?
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Speaker 4: Behold the relics of the race of Atreus thrust from
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Speaker 4: pride of place, Oh, Zeus, what home henceforth is ours?
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Speaker 4: What refuge to attain?
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Speaker 3: Lou will my heart throbs wild. Now I am lorn,
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Speaker 3: with sadness, darkened in all my soul. To hear your
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Speaker 3: sorrow's word, anon, to hope the deceit of rise, she
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Speaker 3: threaten lifts us eyes to the dawn.
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Speaker 2: Gladness skills it to tell of aught, save wrong on
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Speaker 2: wrong wrought by our mother's deed. Though now she fond
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Speaker 2: for pardon, sternly strong standeth our wrath, and will nor
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Speaker 2: hear nor heed. Her children's soul is wolfish, born from hers,
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Speaker 2: and softens not by prayers.
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Speaker 3: I doubt upon my breathreast the blow that women know
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Speaker 3: whales from my breast. The funeral will cry decision weeding
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Speaker 3: malady stretched rendingly forth to tatter, and hear my hands
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Speaker 3: wander here and there, from head to breath breast. This
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Speaker 3: is fat with willows throb dizzily my brows.
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Speaker 4: Allus in hate, O mother, sternly brave as in a
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Speaker 4: foeman's grave, Thou latest in earth a king, But to
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Speaker 4: the byer, no citizen drew near thy husband thine, Yet
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Speaker 4: for his obsequies, Thou baddest no wail arise alas.
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Speaker 2: The shameful burial. Thou dost speak, Yet I the vengeance
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Speaker 2: of his shame, will reak that do the God's command
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Speaker 2: that shall achieve mine hand grant me to thrust her
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Speaker 2: life away, and I will dare to die.
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Speaker 3: List thou he and foully horn he to the dew
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Speaker 3: was born. Ye, by her hand, the deed who wrought
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Speaker 3: with like dishonor to the grave brought, and by her
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Speaker 3: hand she strove with strong desire thy life to crush,
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Speaker 3: O child, by murder of thy sire, bethake thee hearing
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Speaker 3: of the shame of the pain, wherewith that that ire
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Speaker 3: was slain.
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Speaker 4: YEA, such was the doom of my sire. Well a
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Speaker 4: day I was thrust from his side, as a dog
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Speaker 4: from the chamber. They thrust me away, and in place
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Speaker 4: of my laughter rose sobbing in tears as in darkness.
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Speaker 4: I lay, o, Father, if this word can pass to
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Speaker 4: thine ears to thy soul, Let it reach and abide,
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Speaker 4: Let it it pass.
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Speaker 3: Let it appears through the sense of thine ear to
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Speaker 3: thy soul, wherein silence it waiteth thee horror the past
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Speaker 3: is examolished. But rouse thee to hear what did the
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Speaker 3: future preparis await and appear Our champion and.
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Speaker 2: In wrath and in power, O, Father, to thy loved ones,
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Speaker 2: come and.
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Speaker 4: Aid with tears, I call on thee listen and rise
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Speaker 4: to light.
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Speaker 3: Be thou with us, be thou against if the foe swiftly.
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Speaker 3: This is why I rises. Even so pray we the
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Speaker 3: loyal band, as.
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Speaker 2: We have prayed, what there might meet with mine and
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Speaker 2: their right with my right. O.
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Speaker 4: Ye gods, it is yours to decree.
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Speaker 3: Ye call unto the dead. I quick wait to hear
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Speaker 3: here faith it is ordained of old and shall fulfill
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Speaker 3: your prayer.
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Speaker 4: Alas the unborn curse that haunts our home, of eighty's
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Speaker 4: blood stained scour, the tuneless sound, alas the deep and
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Speaker 4: suffer doom that stanchless wound.
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Speaker 2: It shall be stanched. The task is ours, not by
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Speaker 2: a stranger's, but by kindred hands. Shall be chased forth
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Speaker 2: the blood fiend of our land. Be this our spoken
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Speaker 2: spell to call Earth's nether powers, Lord.
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Speaker 3: Of eternity, to you has come children cry send hell.
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Speaker 2: Fulfill your aid to pray. O, Father, murdered and unkingly wise,
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Speaker 2: fulfill my prayer. Grant me thine hauls to sway to
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Speaker 2: me too.
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Speaker 4: Grant this boon dark death to deal unto agis this
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Speaker 4: and to escape my doom.
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Speaker 2: So shall the rightful feasts, that mortal's pay be set
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Speaker 2: for thee. Else not for THEE shall rise the scented
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Speaker 2: reek of altars, fed with flesh. But thou shalt light dishonored.
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Speaker 4: Hear thou, me I too, from my full heritage restored,
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Speaker 4: will pour the lostrel streams. What time I ass forth
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Speaker 4: as a bride from these paternal halls and honor first
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Speaker 4: beyond all graves, thy.
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Speaker 2: Tomb earth, Send my sire to fend me in the fight.
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Speaker 4: Give fair faced fortune, O persephone.
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Speaker 2: Bethink thee father and the laver slain.
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Speaker 4: Bethink thee of the net they handselt for thee.
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Speaker 2: Bonds not of brass ensnared THEE Father, mine yea.
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Speaker 4: The ill craft of an unfolding robe.
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Speaker 2: By this our bitter speech, arise, O sire, raise.
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Speaker 4: Thou thine head at love's last, dearest.
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Speaker 2: Call yea speed forth right to aid thy kinsman's cause.
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Speaker 2: Grip for grip, let them grasp the foe. If thou
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Speaker 2: willest in triumph to forget thy fall.
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Speaker 4: Hear me, O father, once again, hear me lo at
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Speaker 4: thy tomb. Two fledglings of thy brood, a man child
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Speaker 4: and a maid. Hold them in ruth, nor wipe them
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Speaker 4: out the last of Pelop's line. For while they live,
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Speaker 4: thou livest from the dead. Children are Memory's voices, and
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Speaker 4: preserve the dead from wholly dying, as a net is
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Speaker 4: ever by the buoyant corks upheld, which save the deflexmash
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Speaker 4: and the depths submerged. Listen the wail of ours doth
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Speaker 4: rise for thee, And as thou heedest it, thyself art
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Speaker 4: saved in sooth.
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Speaker 3: A blameless prayer, Ye spake at atlant the tombs requital
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Speaker 3: for it's thirs denied. Now for the rest, as thou
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Speaker 3: art fixed to do, take a fortune by the hand,
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Speaker 3: and work thy I will.
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Speaker 2: The doom is set. And yet I fain would ask,
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Speaker 2: not swerving from the course of my resolve. Wherefore she
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Speaker 2: sends these offerings, and why she softens all too late
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Speaker 2: her cureless deed, an idle boonet was to send them
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Speaker 2: here unto the dead, who recks not such gifts. I
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Speaker 2: cannot guess her thought, But well, I ween such gifts
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Speaker 2: are skilless to atone such crime. Ye blood once spilled
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Speaker 2: an idle strife, he strives who seeks with other wealth
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Speaker 2: or wine outpoured to atone the deed so stands the
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Speaker 2: word nor fails. Yet would I know her thought? Speak?
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Speaker 2: If thou knowest I know it?
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Speaker 3: Son, For at her side I stood it was the
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Speaker 3: ninth wondering terror of a dream that flung her, shivering
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Speaker 3: from her her pouch, and bade her her the part
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Speaker 3: of God.
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Speaker 2: These offerings send heard ye the dream to tell it forth,
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Speaker 2: or right.
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Speaker 3: Ye from herself her womb a serpent bear.
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Speaker 2: What then the sum and issue of the tale.
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Speaker 3: Even as a swaddle child, she lulled the thing.
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Speaker 2: What suckling, craved the creature born full fanged.
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Speaker 3: In her dream, she profited the breast.
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Speaker 2: How did the hateful thing not bite her teeth?
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Speaker 3: Yee and sut forth a blood out in the milk?
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Speaker 2: Not vain this dream it bodes a man's revenge.
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Speaker 3: Then out of sleep she starts with a cry, and
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Speaker 3: through the palace for their mistress aid full many lembs
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Speaker 3: that erth laid lined wo win a night flared into light. Then,
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Speaker 3: even as mormer use, she sends these offerings in hope
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Speaker 3: to win a cue to cleave and thunder.
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Speaker 2: Sin, from doom, earth and my father's grave. To you.
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Speaker 2: I call give this her dream fulfillment, and through me
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Speaker 2: I read it in each part coincident with what shall
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Speaker 2: be for mark. That serpent sprang from the same womb
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Speaker 2: as I, in swaddling bands, by the same hands, with
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Speaker 2: swathed lipped the same breast, and sucking forth the same
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Speaker 2: sweet mother's milk infused a clod of blood, and in
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Speaker 2: alarm she cried upon her wound, the cry of pain.
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Speaker 2: The reed is clear, the thing of dread she nursed,
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Speaker 2: the death of blood. She dies, And I tis I
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Speaker 2: in semblance of a serpent that must slay her. Thou
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Speaker 2: art my seer, and thus I read the dream.
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Speaker 3: So do yet here you thou doest speaks to us. Fighting,
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Speaker 3: some act some by not acting, aid.
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Speaker 2: Grief my command. I bid my sister pass in silence
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Speaker 2: to the house, and all I bid this my design
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Speaker 2: with wariness, conceal that they who did by craft a
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Speaker 2: chieftain slay, may by like craft and in like news
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Speaker 2: Speataan dying. The death which Locksius foretold Apollo king and
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Speaker 2: prophet undisproved. I with this warrior Pilates will come in
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Speaker 2: likeness of a stranger full equipped, as travelers come, and
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Speaker 2: at the palace gates will stand as stranger yet and
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Speaker 2: friendship's bond unto this house alied. And each of us
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Speaker 2: will speak the tongue that round Parnassus sounds, feigning such
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Speaker 2: speech as foe she invoices use. And what if none
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Speaker 2: of those that tend the gates shall welcome us with gladness,
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Speaker 2: since the house with ills divine is haunted. If this hap,
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Speaker 2: we at the gate will bide till passing by some
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Speaker 2: townsmen make conjecture and proclaim, how is a just this there?
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Speaker 2: And knowingly keep supply and aloof by bolt and bar,
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Speaker 2: then shall I win my way? And if I cross
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Speaker 2: the threshold of the gate the palace guard and find
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Speaker 2: him throned words where my father sat, or if he
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Speaker 2: come anon and face to face, confronting drop his eye
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Speaker 2: from mine, I swear he shall not utter who art thou?
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Speaker 2: And whence ere my steel leap and compassed round with
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Speaker 2: death low he shall lie, and thus full fed with doom,
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Speaker 2: the fury of the house shall drain once more a
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Speaker 2: deep third draft of rich, unmingled blood. But thou, o sister,
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Speaker 2: look that all within be well prepared to give these
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Speaker 2: things event And ye I say twere well to bear
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Speaker 2: a tongue full of fair silence and of fitting speech,
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Speaker 2: as each beseems the time and last, Do thou, Hermes
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Speaker 2: the warder God, keep watch and ward and guide to
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Speaker 2: victory my striving sword.
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Speaker 1: Orestes exits with Pilodes
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Speaker 3: End of Section three