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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��