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    My heart's alarm forbiddeth sleep��

    Close´clinging cares around my soul

    Enkindle fears beyond control��

    Presageful of what doom may fall

    From the great leaguer of the wall��

    So a poor dove is faint with fear

    For her weak nestlings�察�while anew

    Glides on the snaky ravisher��

    In troop and squadron�察�hand on hand��

    They climb and throng�察�and hemmed we stand��

    While on the warders of our town

    The flinty shower comes hurtling down��

    Gods born of Zeus� �put forth your might

    For Cadmus' city�察�realm�察�and right��



                                                        antistrophe 1



    What nobler land shall e'er be yours��

    If once ye give to hostile powers

    The deep rich soil�察�and Dirce's wave��

    The nursing stream�察�Poseidon gave

    And Tethys' children�拭�Up and save��

    Cast on the ranks that hem us round

    A deadly panic�察�make them fling

    Their arms in terror on the ground��

    And die in carnage� �thence shall spring

    High honour for our clan and king��

    Come at our wailing cry�察�and stand

    As throned sentries of our land��



                                                            strophe 2



    For pity and sorrow it were that this immemorial town

    Should sink to be slave of the spear�察�to dust and to ashes gone

      down��

    By the gods of Achaean worship and arms of Achaean might

    Sacked and defiled and dishonoured�察�its women the prize of the

      fight´

    That�察�haled by the hair as a steed�察�their mantles dishevelled and

      torn��

    The maiden and matron alike should pass to the wedlock of scorn��

    I hear it arise from the city�察�the manifold wail of despair´

    Woe�察�woe for the doom that shall be´as in grasp of the foeman

      they fare��



                                                        antistrophe 2



    For a woe and a weeping it is�察�if the maiden inviolate flower

    Is plucked by the foe in his might�察�not culled in the bridal

      bower��

    Alas for the hate and the horror´how say it�拭�less hateful by far

    Is the doom to be slain by the sword�察�hewn down in the carnage of

      war��

    For wide�察�ah� �wide is the woe when the foeman has mounted the

      wall��

    There is havoc and terror and flame�察�and the dark smoke broods

      over all��

    And wild is the war´god's breath�察�as in frenzy of conquest he

      springs��

    And pollutes with the blast of his lips the glory of holiest

      things��



                                                            strophe 3



        Up to the citadel rise clash and din��

          The war´net closes in��

        The spear is in the heart�此�with blood imbrued

          Young mothers wail aloud��

        For children at their breast who scream and die��

          And boys and maidens fly��

        Yet scape not the pursuer�察�in his greed

          To thrust and grasp and feed��

        Robber with robber joins�察�each calls his mate

          Unto the feast of hate´

        The banquet�察�lo� �is spread´seize�察�rend�察�and tear��

          No need to choose or share��



                                                        antistrophe 3



        And all the wealth of earth to waste is poured´

          A sight by all abhorred��

        The grieving housewives eye it�察�heaped and blent��

          Earth's boons are spoiled and spent��

        And waste to nothingness�察�and O alas��

          Young maids�察�forlorn ye pass´

        Fresh horror at your hearts´beneath the power

          Of those who crop the flower��

        Ye own the ruffian ravisher for lord��

          And night brings rites abhorred��

        Woe�察�woe for you� �upon your grief and pain

          There comes a fouler stain。

    ��On one side THE Spy enters�察�on the other�察�ETEOCLES and

        the SIX CHAMPIONS。��

  LEADER OF THE FIRST SEMI´CHORUS

    Look�察�friends� �methinks the scout�察�who parted hence

    To spy upon the foemen�察�comes with news��

    His feet as swift as wafting chariot´wheels。

  LEADER OF THE SECOND SEMI´CHORUS

    Ay�察�and our king�察�the son of Oedipus��

    Comes prompt to time�察�to learn the spy's report´

    His heart is fainer than his foot is fast��

  THE SPY

    Well have I scanned the foe�察�and well can say

    Unto which chief�察�by lot�察�each gate is given。

    Tydeus already with his onset´cry

    Storms at the gate called Proetides�察�but him

    The seer Amphiaraus holds at halt��

    Nor wills that he should cross Ismenus' ford��

    Until the sacrifices promise fair。

    But Tydeus�察�mad with lust of blood and broil��

    Like to a cockatrice at noontide hour��

    Hisses out wrath and smites with scourge of tongue

    The prophet´son of Oecleus´Wise thou art��

    Faint against war�察�and holding back from death��

    With such revilings loud upon his lips

    He waves the triple plumes that o'er his helm

    Float overshadowing�察�as a courser's mane��

    And at his shield's rim�察�terror in their tone��

    Clang and reverberate the brazen bells。

    And this proud sign�察�wrought on his shield�察�he bears�察�

    The vault of heaven�察�inlaid with blazing stars��

    And�察�for the boss�察�the bright moon glows at full��

    The eye of night�察�the first and lordliest star。

    Thus with high´vaunted armour�察�madly bold��

    He clamours by the stream´bank�察�wild for war��

    As a steed panting grimly on his bit��

    Held in and chafing for the trumpet's bray��

    Whom wilt thou set against him�拭�when the gates

    Of Proetus yield�察�who can his rush repel��

  ETEOCLES

    To me�察�no blazon on a foeman's shield

    Shall e'er present a fear� �such pointed threats

    Are powerless to wound�察�his plumes and bells��

    Without a spear�察�are snakes without a sting。

    Nay�察�more´that pageant of which thou tellest´

    The nightly sky displayed�察�ablaze with stars��

    Upon his shield�察�palters with double sense

    One headstrong fool will find its truth anon��

    For�察�if night fall upon his eyes in death��

    Yon vaunting blazon will its own truth prove��

    And he is prophet of his folly's fall。

    Mine shall it be�察�to pit against his power

    The loyal son of Astacus�察�as guard

    To hold the gateways´a right valiant soul��

    Who has in heed the throne of Modesty

    And loathes the speech of Pride�察�and evermore

    Shrinks from the base�察�but knows no other fear。

    He springs by stock from those whom Ares spared��

    The men called Sown�察�a right son of the soil��

    And Melanippus styled。 Now�察�what his arm

    To´day shall do�察�rests with the dice of war��

    And Ares shall ordain it�察�but his cause

    Hath the true badge of Right�察�to urge him on

    To guard�察�as son�察�his motherland from wrong。

                                               ��MELANIPPUS goes out。��

  CHORUS ��chanting��

        Then may the gods give fortune fair

        Unto our chief�察�sent forth to dare

          War's terrible arbitrament��

        But ah� �when champions wend away��

        I shudder�察�lest�察�from out the fray��

          Only their blood´stained wrecks be sent��

  THE SPY

    Nay�察�let him pass�察�and the gods' help be his��

    Next�察�Capaneus comes on�察�by lot to lead

    The onset at the gates Electran styled��

    A giant be�察�more huge than Tydeus' self��

    And more than human in his arrogance´

    May fate forefend his threat against our walls��

    God willing�察�or unwilling´such his vaunt´

    I will lay waste this city�察�Pallas' self��

    Zeus's warrior maid�察�although she swoop to earth

    And plant her in my path�察�shall stay me not。

    And�察�for the flashes of the levin´bolt��

    He holds them harmless as the noontide rays。

    Mark�察�too�察�the symbol on his shield´a man

    Scornfully weaponless but torch in hand��

    And the flame glows witbin his grasp�察�prepared

    For ravin�此�lo�察�the legend�察�wrought in words��

    Fire for the city bring I�察�flares in gold��

    

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