Aeschylus' AGAMEMNON Complete

Translated by E. Morshead.

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Leader: The bloody act is over--I have heard the monarch's cry--

Let us swiftly take some counsel, lest we too be doomed to die.

One of the Chorus: 'Tis best, I judge, aloud for aid to call,

"Ho! loyal Argives! to the palace, all!"

Another: Better, I deem, ourselves to bear the aid,
And drag the deed to light, while drips the blade.

Another: Such will is mine, and what thou say'st I say:
Swiftly to act! the time brooks no delay.

Another: Ay, for tis plain, this prelude of their song
Foretells its close in tyranny and wrong.

Another: Behold, we tarry--but thy name, Delay,
They spurn, and press with sleepless hand to slay.

Another: I know not what 'twere well to counsel now--
Who wills to act, 'tis his to counsel how.

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