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[ 1348-1371] Agamemnon 213<br />

ONE OF <strong>THE</strong> CHORUS<br />

Tis best, I judge, aloud for aid to call,<br />

"Ho! loyal Argives! to the palace, all!"<br />

ANO<strong>THE</strong>R<br />

Better, I deem, ourselves to bear the aid,<br />

And drag the deed to light, while drips the blade.<br />

ANO<strong>THE</strong>R<br />

Such will is mine, and what thou say'st I say:<br />

Swiftly to act! the time brooks no delay.<br />

ANO<strong>THE</strong>R<br />

Ay, for 'tis plain, this prelude of their song<br />

Foretells its close in tyranny and wrong.<br />

ANO<strong>THE</strong>R<br />

Behold, we tarry—but thy name, Delay,<br />

They spurn, and press with sleepless hand to slay.<br />

ANO<strong>THE</strong>R<br />

I know not what 'twere well to counsel now—<br />

Who wills to act, 'tis his to counsel how.<br />

ANO<strong>THE</strong>R<br />

Thy doubt is mine: for when a man is slain,<br />

I have no words to bring his life again.<br />

ANO<strong>THE</strong>R<br />

What? e'en for life's sake, bow us to obey<br />

These house-defilers and their tyrant sway?<br />

ANO<strong>THE</strong>R<br />

Unmanly doom! 'twere better far to die—<br />

Death is a gentler lord than tyranny.<br />

ANO<strong>THE</strong>R<br />

Think well—must cry or sign of woe or pain<br />

Fix our conclusion that the chief is slain?<br />

ANO<strong>THE</strong>R<br />

Such talk befits us when the deed we see—<br />

Conjecture dwells afar from certainty.<br />

LEADER OF <strong>THE</strong> CHORUS<br />

I read one will from many a diverse word,<br />

To know aright, how stands it with our lord!

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