Aeschylus' AGAMEMNON Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Herald: Alas-brief boon unto my friends it were,
To flatter them, for truth, with falsehoods fair!

Leader: Speak joy, if truth be joy, but truth, at worst-

Too plainly, truth and joy are here divorced.

Herald: The hero and his bark were rapt away
Far from the Grecian fleet; 'tis truth I say.

Leader: Whether in all men's sight from Ilion borne,
Or from the fleet by stress of weather torn?

Herald: Full on the mark thy shaft of speech doth light,

And one short word hath told long woes aright.

Leader: But say, what now of him each comrade saith?
What their forebodings, of his life or death?

Herald: Ask me no more: the truth is known to none,
Save the earth-fostering, all-surveying Sun.

Leader: Say, by what doom the fleet of Greece was driven?

How rose, how sank the storm, the wrath of heaven?

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