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690 Euripides [387-403 ]<br />

ALCESTIS<br />

You may say of me that I am nothing.<br />

ADMETUS<br />

Lift up your head! Do not abandon your children!<br />

ALCESTIS<br />

Ah! Indeed it is unwillingly—but, farewell, my children!<br />

Look at them, look. . . .<br />

I am nothing.<br />

ADMETUS<br />

ALCESTIS<br />

ADMETUS<br />

What are you doing? Are you leaving me?<br />

Farewell.<br />

ALCESTIS (jailing back dead)<br />

ADMETUS (staring at the body)<br />

Wretch that I am, I am lost!<br />

LEADER<br />

She is gone! The wife of Admetus is no more.<br />

EUMELUS (chanting)<br />

Ah! Misery!<br />

Mother has gone,<br />

Gone to the Underworld!<br />

She lives no more,<br />

O my Father,<br />

In the sunlight.<br />

0 sad one,<br />

You have left us<br />

To live motherless!<br />

See, Oh, see her eyelids<br />

And her drooping hands!<br />

Mother, Mother,<br />

Hearken to me, listen,<br />

1 beseech you!<br />

I—I—Mother!—<br />

I am calling to you,<br />

Your little bird fallen upon your face!

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