Euripides' ALCESTIS Complete

Translated by Gilbert Murray. - Cf. An Introduction to Euripides' Alcestis by Murray

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Servant: He held it shame to turn thee from his hall.

Heracles: Shame! And when such a wondrous wife was gone!

Servant (breaking into tears): Oh, all is gone, all lost, not she alone!

Heracles: I knew, I felt it, when I saw his tears,
And face, and shorn hair. But he won mine ears
With talk of the strange woman and her rite
Of burial. So in mine own heart's despite
I crossed his threshold and sat drinking--he
And I old friends!--in his calamity.
Drank, and sang songs, and revelled, my head hot
With wine and flowers!... And thou to tell me not,
When all the house lay filled with sorrow, thou!
(A pause; then suddenly)
Where lies the tomb?--Where shall I find her now?

Servant (frightened): Close by the straight Larissa road. The tall
White marble showeth from the castle wall.

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