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OEDIPUS<br />
Horrors from the boundless deep<br />
Back on my soul in refluent surges sweep.<br />
CHORUS<br />
Thou hast endured--<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
CHORUS<br />
And sinned--<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
CHORUS<br />
Intolerable woe.<br />
I sinned not.<br />
How so?<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
I served the State; would I had never won<br />
That graceless grace <strong>by</strong> which I was undone.<br />
CHORUS<br />
(Ant. 2)<br />
And next, unhappy man, thou hast shed blood?<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
Must ye hear more?<br />
CHORUS<br />
A father's?<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
Flood on flood<br />
Whelms me; that word's a second mortal blow.<br />
CHORUS<br />
Murderer!<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
Yes, a murderer, but know--<br />
CHORUS<br />
What canst thou plead?<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
CHORUS<br />
A plea <strong>of</strong> justice.<br />
OEDIPUS<br />
I slew who else would me have slain;<br />
I slew without intent,<br />
A wretch, but innocent<br />
In the law's eye, I stand, without a stain.<br />
How?