The Agamemnon of Aeschylus - Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Aeschylus
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His Third-thrower, and is gone.
Only they whose hearts have known Zeus, the Conqueror and the Friend, They shall win their vision's end; Zeus the Guide, who made man turn Thought-ward, Zeus, who did ordain Man by Suffering shall Learn. So the heart of him, again Aching with remembered pain, Bleeds and sleepeth not, until Wisdom comes against his will. 'Tis the gift of One by strife Lifted to the throne of life. (AGAMEMNON _accepted the sign. Then came long delay, and storm while the fleet lay at Aulis._) So that day the Elder Lord, Marshal of the Achaian ships, Strove not with the prophet's word, Bowed him to his fate's eclipse, When with empty jars and lips Parched and seas impassable Fate on that Greek army fell, Fronting Chalcis as it lay, By Aulis in the swirling bay. (_Till at last Calchas answered that Artemis was wroth and demanded the death of_ AGAMEMNON'S _daughter. The King's doubt and grief_.) |
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