Sophocles' OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Complete

Translated by F. Storr. From the Loeb Library Edition, Originally published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and William Heinemann Ltd, London. First published in 1912.

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Page 37

Ismene: I go, and thou, Antigone, meanwhile
Must guard our father. In a parent's cause
Toil, if there be toil, is of no account.
[Exit Ismene]

Chorus: (Str. 1)
Ill it is, stranger, to awake
Pain that long since has ceased to ache,
And yet I fain would hear--

Oedipus: What thing?

Chorus: Thy tale of cruel suffering
For which no cure was found,
The fate that held thee bound.

Oedipus: O bid me not (as guest I claim
This grace) expose my shame.

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