Capitolo 70
CHOIR
An agony, an agony!
XERXES
Thy that bleaches beard tear out!
CHOIR
From handfuls, ay, from handfuls, with dirty dark lacerate-drops!
XERXES
Thine painful pain sob out!
CHOIR
I love thine they respect.
XERXES
With hands of thine you lacerate the fold of mantle of thy--
CHOIR
Alas, value of pain the day!
XERXES
With thine his/her own fingers lacerate thy closes, complain about the army is strange!
CHOIR
From handfuls, yea, from handfuls, with torn wounds of portion smeared!
XERXES
Now you leave thine it looks you find flood--
CHOIR
Me wend in moan and the pain!
XERXES
An in conformity with complaint invokes me--
CHOIR
Alas, alas again!
XERXES
Shout with a to whine some agony, and conducts the sorry train!
CHOIR
Alas, alas, now Persian earth is limestone woeful!
XERXES
Cries and cries! the city doths now groan above the corpses!
CHOIR
I sob and I complain me!
XERXES
I now offer ye is delicate in pain!
CHOIR
Alas, Persian earth is sad and non relief knoweth!
XERXES
Alas, the triple banks of row and those that died with this!
CHOIR
Footsteps! I will conduct her, house brings him with a lot of one broken sigh!
[_Exeunt_
THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
ETEOCLES.
A SPY.
CHOIR OF YOUNG GIRL OF CADMEAN.
ANTIGONE.
ISMENE.
A HERALD.
ETEOCLES
Member of a clan of Cadmus, to the given signal
For a long time and season the rule owes you speak
Who puts the course and it governs the ship of State
With hand on the puts the tiller, and with eye
Careful against the disloyalty of sleep.
For if everybody correctly goes, _thanks Heaven_, say men,
But if adversely--what is able God forefend!--
A name on many lips, from road in road,
It would bear the noise and rumour of the time,
_Down with Eteocles_!--a resounding curse,
A funeral song of downfall. May that dissuades Zeus
Do good his/her title here, in the taking of Cadmus!
You the it is now suitable him to still unripened of the boys