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  ANTIGONE

    His rights usurped; he answered wrong with wrong。

  HERALD

    Nay…but for one man's sin he smote the State。

  ANTIGONE

    Contention doth out…talk all other gods!

    Prate thou no more…I will to bury him。

  HERALD

    Will; an thou wilt! but I forbid the deed。

                                               (The HERALD goes out。)

  CHORUS (singing)

    Exulting Fates; who waste the line

      And whelm the house of Oedipus!

    Fiends; who have slain; in wrath condign;

      The father and the children thus!

    What now befits it that I do;

    What meditate; what undergo?

    Can I the funeral rite refrain;

    Nor weep for Polyneices slain?

    But yet; with fear I shrink and thrill;

    Presageful of the city's will!

    Thou; O Eteocles; shalt have

    Full rites; and mourners at thy grave;

    But he; thy brother slain; shall he;

    With none to weep or cry Alas;

    To unbefriended burial pass?

    Only one sister o'er his bier;

    To raise the cry and pour the tear…

    Who can obey such stern decree?

  SEMI…CHORUS

      Let those who hold our city's sway

        Wreak; or forbear to wreak; their will

      On those who cry; Ah; well…a…day!

        Lamenting Polyneices still!

    We will go forth and; side by side

    With her; due burial will provide!

    Royal he was; to him be paid

    Our grief; wherever he be laid!

    The crowd may sway; and change; and still

    Take its caprice for justice' will

      But we this dead Eteocles;

      As Justice wills and Right decrees;

        Will bear unto his grave!

      For…under those enthroned on high

      And Zeus' eternal royalty…

      He unto us salvation gave!

        He saved us from a foreign yoke;…

        A wild assault of outland folk;

        A savage; alien wave!





                     THE END



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