Capitolo 12
such marriage in horror, and it ran away above with them father the sea to
Argos; and the king and citizens of Argos gave them refuge and
protection from their pursuers.
THE SUPPLIANT YOUNG GIRL
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
DANAUS, THE KING OF ARGOS, HERALD OF AEGYPTUS.
_Chorus of the Daughters of Danaus. Attendants_.
_Scene. --A near sacred enclosure the gates of Argos: statue and
shrines of Zeus and the other divinities sustain around_.
CHOIR
ZEUS! God and watch of suppliant hands!
You seem down benign on us who persistently ask
Thine helps--who leaves without breath and it waters drave
From where, through moving that it goes adrift the sands,
Downpours Nilus to the wave.
From where the green earth, god-possest,
He/she closes and foreheads I waste him/it Syrian,
We run away as you exile, still the unbanned
From the sentence of murder from our earth;
But--from when Aegyptus had decreed
His/her children should marry the seed of his/her brother,--
Us we lacerated from abhorred obligations,
From marriage not of heart but it gives,
Neither bore to call a gentleman of relative!
It is Danaus, our sire and guide,
The king of suggestion, pond'ring well
The dice of the fortune as them fell,
Out of the two pains the kindest chose,
And he/she offered us fly, with him close to,
Careless that winds or so that they rose,
And o'er the maritime and wide alacrity of waters,
Up to that to the beach of Argos finally
Our wandering pinnaces came--
Argos, the immemorial house
Of her from who we boast there to come--
Me, the ox-horned young girl that,
After long vagabondage, the pain and scathe,
Zeus with a touch, a mystical breath,
Mother sort of our name.
Therefore, of all the earths of earth,
On this more gladly the footstep us before,
It is in our hands we am born aloft--
You sole weapon for the use of a suppliant--
The olive-wisecrack of chases, with wool enwound!
City, and it disembarks, and waters pale
Of Inachus, and of the tallest,