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OEDIPUS<br />

Woe is me! Cruel as death, strangers, are these words in mine ears;<br />

—but those maidens, begotten of me—<br />

What wilt thou say?—<br />

CHORUS<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

—two daughters—two curses—<br />

OZeus!<br />

CHORUS<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

—sprang from the travail of the womb that bore me.<br />

CHORUS<br />

These, then, are at once thine offspring, and . . .<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

—yea, very sisters of their sire.<br />

Oh, horror!<br />

CHORUS<br />

strophe 2<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

Horror indeed—yea, horrors untold sweep back upon my soull<br />

Thou hast suffered—<br />

CHORUS<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

Suffered woes dread to bear.—<br />

Thou hast sinned—<br />

No wilful sin—<br />

How?—<br />

CHORUS<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

CHORUS<br />

OEDIPUS<br />

A gift was given to me—O, broken-hearted that I am, would I had<br />

never won from Thebes that meed for having served her!

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