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THE DAUGHTERS OF TROY.
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Thou that dream'st of high achievement, chief of Danaus' sons' array.
Yea, and me, flung out a naked corse, the mountain's chasm-rift
Foaming with the wintry floods, shall give to beasts, a ravin-gift,
Hard beside my bridegroom's grave—Apollo's priestess-handmaid, me! 450
Garlands of the God most dear unto me, mystic bravery,
Farewell: I have left the temple-feasts, my joy in days o'erpast:
Hence, in rendings from my body, that, while yet my blood is chaste,
I may give them to the blasts to waft to thee, O Prophet-lord!
Where is Agamemnon's galley?—whither go to pass aboard? 455
Loiter not from eager watching for the breeze to fill the sail:
One of the Avengers Three is this that thou from Troy shalt hale.
Fare-thee-well, my mother, weep not;—fatherland, beloved name;—
Ye beneath the sod, my brethren;—father, of whose loins I came;—
'Tis not long ere ye shall greet me: I unto my dead shall come 460
Triumph-crowned from havoc of the Atreid house that wrought our doom.

[Exit Talthybius with Kassandra.

Chorus.

Grey Hecuba's attendants, mark ye not
Your mistress sinking speechless to the earth?

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