Aeschylus' AGAMEMNON Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Leader: Hail, herald of the Greeks, new-come from war.

Herald: All hail! not death itself can fright me now.

Leader: Was thine heart wrung with longing for thy land?

Herald: So that this joy doth brim mine eyes with tears.

Leader: On you too then this sweet distress did fall-

Herald: How say'st thou? make me master of thy word.

Leader: You longed for us who pined for you again.

Herald: Craved the land us who craved it, love for love?

Leader: Yea, till my brooding heart moaned out with pain.

Herald: Whence thy despair, that mars the army's joy?

Leader: Sole cure of wrong is silence, saith the saw.

Herald: Thy kings afar, couldst thou fear other men?

Leader: Death had been sweet, as thou didst say but now.

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