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<h1 epub:type="title">The Trachiniae</h1>
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<p>By <b epub:type="z3998:author z3998:personal-name">Sophocles</b>.</p>
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<p>Translated by <b epub:type="z3998:translator z3998:personal-name">Francis Storr</b>.</p>
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<h2 epub:type="title">Argument</h2>
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<p>Derantra, alarmed at the long absence of her husband, resolves to send their son Hyllus in quest of his father. When he left home Heracles had told her that in fifteen months would come the crisis of his fate—either death or glory and rest from his toils. As she meditates, Lichas, the henchman of Heracles, comes in sight, tells her that his master is safe and will shortly follow. He is now at Cape Cenaeum in Euboea, about to raise an altar to Zeus in honour of his victories. With Lichas are a train of captive maidens and among them she espies Iolè. By cross-questioning she learns that Heracles has transferred to Iolè his love, and determines to win it back by means of a love-charm that the Centaur Nessus had left to her as he lay dying. So she sends by the hand of Lichas a festal robe besmeared with what proves to be a burning poison. Too late she discovers her mistake. The flock of wool that she had used to apply the charm and flung away smoulders self-consumed before her eyes. Hyllus returns from Euboea and denounces his mother as a murderer, describing the agonies of his tortured father. At the news Deianira passes within the house and slays herself with a sword. The dying Heracles is borne home on a litter. He gives his last injunctions to Hyllus, to bear him to Mount Oeta, there burn him on a pyre, and then to return and take Iolè to wife. With a bitter word against the gods who have thus afflicted their own son, the noblest man on earth, Hyllus gives an unwilling consent.</p>
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<p>Heracles, son of Zeus and Alcmena</p>
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<p>Chorus of Trachinian maidens</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<p>Scene: Before the house of Heracles at Trachis.</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="halftitlepage" epub:type="halftitlepage frontmatter">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="fulltitle">The Trachiniae</h2>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="the-trachiniae" epub:type="z3998:drama z3998:scene bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<table>
|
||
<tbody>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</b> and <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There is an old-world saying current still,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Of no man canst thou judge the destiny</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To call it good or evil, till he die.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I, before I pass into the world</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of shadows, know <em>my</em> lot is hard and sad.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en in my childhood’s home, while yet I dwelt</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At Pleuron with my father, I had dread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of marriage more than any Aetolian maid;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For my first wooer was a river god,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Acheloiis, who in triple form appeared</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To sue my father Oeneus for my hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now as a bull, now as a sinuous snake</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With glittering coils, and now in bulk a man</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With front of ox, while from his shaggy beard</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Runnels of fountain-water spouted forth.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In terror of so strange a wooer, I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was ever praying death might end my woes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before I came to such a marriage bed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then to my joy, though long delayed, the son</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Zeus and of Alemena, good at need,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Grappled the monster and delivered me.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The circumstance and manner of that fight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I cannot tell, not knowing; whoso watched it,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Indifferent to the issue, might describe.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For me—I sat distracted by the dread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That beauty in the end might prove my bane.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But Zeus who holds the arbitrament of war</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ordered it well, if well indeed it be.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For since, his chosen bride, I shared the home</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Heracles, my cares have never ceased;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Terror on terror follows, dread on dread,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And one night’s trouble drives the last night’s out.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Children were born to us, but them he sees</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fen as the tiller of a distant field</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sees it at seedtime, sees it once again</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At harvest, and no more. Such life was his</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That kept him roaming to and fro from home,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To drudge for some taskmaster. And to-day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When he has overcome these many toils,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To-day I am terror-stricken most of all.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For since he slew the doughty Iphitus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We have been dwelling with a stranger, here</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In Trachis, banished from our home, and he—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>None knoweth where he bides; but this I know,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He has gone and left me here to yearn and pine.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Surely some mischief has befallen him,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(For since he went an age—ten long, long months,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And other five—has passed, and not a word),</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some dread calamity, as signifies</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This tablet that he left me. Oh! how oft</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’ve prayed it prove no harbinger of woe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My lady Deianira, many a time</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I’ve listened to thy lamentable plaints</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And groanings for the absence of thy lord.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now, if I seem not overbold, a slave</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would lend her counsel to a free-born dame.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why, since thou art so rich in sons, not send</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One on the quest, and Hyllus most of all?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who could assist thee better, if he cares</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To ascertain the safety of his sire?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lo, I see him in the nick of time</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Approaching hotfoot. Wherefore, if I seem</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To speak in season, use my rede and him.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My child, my boy! wise words in sooth may fall</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From humble lips. This woman is a slave,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But her words breathe the spirit of the free.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What, mother? tell me, if it may be told.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>She said that never to have gone in search</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of thy long absent father brings thee shame.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, but if rumour’s true, I know of him.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Where hast thou heard, my son, that he abides?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Last season, so they say, the whole year through</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He served as bondsman to a Lydian dame.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Naught would surprise me if he sank so low.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, that disgrace is over, so I hear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Where is he now reported, living or dead?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He wars, or is about to war, they say,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Against Euboea and King Eurytus.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Know’st thou, my son, that when he went away</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He left sure oracles anent that land?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What, mother? I ne’er heard of them before.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That either he should find his death, or when</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He had achieved this final task, henceforth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lead an unbroken life of peaceful ease.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Son, when his fate thus trembles in the scale,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wilt thou not go to aid him? If he’s saved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We too are saved; if lost, we perish too.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ay, mother, I’ll away; had I but known</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of this prediction I had long been gone.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But, as it was, his happy star forbade</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Excess of fear or doubt; but, now I know,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No pains I’ll spare to learn the perfect truth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Go then, my son. However late the quest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He who shall learn good news is well repaid! <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Child of star-bespangled Night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Born as she dies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Laid to rest in a blaze of light,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Tell me, Sun-god, O tell me, where</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Tarries the child of Alemena fair;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Thou from whose eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Keen as lightning, naught can hide.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Doth he on either mainland bide?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Roams he over the sea straits driven?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Thou, omniscient eye of heaven,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Declare, declare!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">For like bird bereft of her mate</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">(Sad my tale)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Deianira, desolate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">She the maiden of many wooed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Pines by fears for her lord pursued;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Ever she bodes some instant harm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Ever she starts at a new alarm,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">With vigils pale.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">For as the tireless South or Northern blast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Billow on billow rolls o’er ocean wide,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">So on the son of Cadmus follows fast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Sea upon sea of trouble, tide on tide;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And now he sinks, now rises; still some god</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Is nigh to save him from Death’s whelming flood.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Bear with me, lady, if I seem to chide thee.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Why by despondency is fair hope slain?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Think that high Zeus, if evil now betide thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">No human lot ordaineth free from pain;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">But as the Bear revolves in heaven all night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">So mortals move ’twixt sorrow and delight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">The sheen of night with daybreak wanes;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Pleasure follows after pains.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">If perchance to-day thou art sad,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Then another man is glad.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Gains with losses alternate;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Naught is constant in one state:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Ponder this, my Queen, nor let</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Carking care thy spirit fret.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Tell me hast thou ever known</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Zeus unmindful of his own?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Doubtless ye must have heard of my distress,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And therefore come; but how my heart is racked</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye cannot know—pray God ye ne’er may know it</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="dl2">
|
||
<span>By suffering!</span>
|
||
<span>Like to us, the tender plant</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is reared and nurtured in some garden close;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor heat, nor rain, nor any breath of air</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Vexes it, but unrufiled, unperturbed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It buds and blossoms in sequestered bliss;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So fare we till the maid is called a wife</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And finds her married portion in the night—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dread terror for her husband or her child.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only the woman who by trial knows</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The cares of wedlock knows what I endure.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Many have been my sorrows in the past,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now of one, the woefullest of all,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have to tell. When Heracles, my lord,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On his last travel was about to start,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He left an ancient tablet in the house,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Inscribed with characters that ne’er before,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>However desperate the enterprise,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He would interpret; for he aye set forth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As one about to do and not to die.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This time, as on his death bed, he prescribed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Due portion of his substance as my dower,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And to his children severally assigned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their heritage of lands; and fixed a date,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Saying that when a year and three full moons</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Had passed since he departed from his home,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He needs must die, or, if he then survived,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Live ever after an untroubled life;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So by the mouth of the two priestly Doves<a href="#note-1" id="noteref-1" epub:type="noteref">1</a></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dodona’s sacred oak had once declared.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now, this very day, the hour has struck</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For confirmation of the prophecy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus from sweet slumber, friends, ye see me start</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With terror at the thought of widowed days,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If he, the noblest of all men, were gone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hush! no ill-omened words! I see approaching</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A messenger, bay-wreathed—he brings good news.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Queen Deianira, let me be the first</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To rid thee of thy fears. Be well assured</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alemena’s son is living; o’er his foes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Victorious he is bringing home the spoils,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To offer firstfruits to his country’s gods.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Old man, what dost thou tell me?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That anon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou shalt behold in presence, at thy gate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Illustrious, crowned with victory, thy lord.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Some stranger or a native told thee this?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The herald Lichas is proclaiming it</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There in the summer pastures to the crowd.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From him I heard, and sped to be the first</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To bring the news and win reward and thanks.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If such his news, why comes he not himself?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That were no light task; all our Malian folk</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cluster around him, hem him on all sides,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ply him with questions, one and all intent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To hear his news; he cannot stir a step,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Midst willing hosts a most unwilling guest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till all their eagerness is satisfied.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But thou shalt see him face to face anon.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lord of the unshorn meads of Oeta, Zeus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Though long delayed, thou giv’st me joy at last.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Women within, and ye without the gates,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Uplift your voices, hail the new-born light</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That dawns to glad me when all hope had fled.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Maidens, let your joyous shout</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Of triumph from the hearth ring out,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Swell the choir of men who raise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Their paean to Apollo’s praise.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Sing, man and maid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Phoebus our aid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Lord of the quiver,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Strong to deliver!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Hymn his sister, maid and man,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Artemis Ortygian.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Slayer of deer,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">With fiery brand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">In either hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">O goddess, hear!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Hymn ye the nymphs too, her attendant band</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">My spirit spurns the ground;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Bid the shrill fife outsound,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">My sovereign I obey.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Evoë!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">The thyrsus, see,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Calls me; I must away</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">To join the Bacchic rout,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">With Maenads dance and shout,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Once more the paean raise;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">For, lady, here,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">In presence clear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">My joy takes shape and stands before thy gaze.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Kind friends, I see, nor have my wistful eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Failed to perceive this company’s approach—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hail to thee, herald, if indeed thou bring’st</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>News that will gladden me, though long delayed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</b> with Captive Women.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, lady, glad is our return and glad</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy greeting, as befits the deed achieved.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He who speeds well a welcome fair deserves.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>First tell me what I first would learn, best friend,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall I embrace my Heracles alive?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Surely; I left him both alive and hale,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In lusty strength and sound in every limb.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Where? upon Greek soil, tell me, or abroad?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Upon a headland in Euboea, where</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He marks out altars to Cenaean Zeus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And dedicates the fertile lands around.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In payment of some former vow, or warned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By oracles?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis for a vow he made</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When he went forth to conquer and despoil</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Oechalia of these women whom thou see’st.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O tell me who these captives are and whose;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So piteous, to judge them by their plight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He chose them for himself and for the gods,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When he had sacked the town of Eurytus.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Was it to take that city he delayed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All those interminable, countless days?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not so; that time he mostly was detained</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In Lydia; by his own account, not free,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But sold in bondage; nor shouldst thou resent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A tale of outrage, when the doer is Zeus.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus he fulfilled (these were his very words)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A year of servitude to Omphalè,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The barbarous queen. So grievous was the sting</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of his reproach, that by a mighty oath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He swore one day to enslave with wife and child</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The author of this foul calamity.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor vain that vow. No sooner was he purged,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than he enlisted straight an alien host,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And marched against the city of Eurytus;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For Eurytus alone of men he deemed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The guilty cause, who when he came a guest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To one by ties of ancient friendship bound,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With many a bitter taunt and bitter spite</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Assailed him, saying, “Thou indeed hast shafts</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unerring, yet in feats of archery</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My sons surpass thee,” or again he’d cry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Out on thee, slave, a freeman’s down-trod thrall.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Once at a banquet too he cast him forth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When he was in his cups. Whereat incensed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Encountering Iphitus upon the hill</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Tiryns in pursuit of his strayed mares,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As the youth stood at gaze, his wits afield,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He hurled him from the craggy battlements.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That deed of violence provoked our King,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The sire of all, Olympian Zeus, who drave him</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forth to be sold, and spared him not, because</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That once (his sole offence) he slew a foe</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By treachery; had he slain him in fair fight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Zeus had approved his righteous wrath, for gods</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No more than men can suffer insolence.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So all those braggarts of outrageous tongue</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lie low in Hades and their town’s enslaved,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And these, the women whom thou seeest, fallen</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To abject misery from their high estate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are to thy hands delivered. Thus my lord</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Charged me, and I, his liegeman true, obey.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Doubt not himself, so soon as he has paid</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Due sacrifices for his victory</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Zeus his sire, will presently be here.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This crowns and consummates my happy tale.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now, lady, is thy joy assured, in part</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Present, with promise sure for what remains.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hearing these happy tidings of my lord</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How can I but rejoice, as it is meet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For our two fortunes run in parallels.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet one who thinks on change and chance must dread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest such success be prelude to a fall.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And a strange pity hath come o’er me, friends,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At sight of these poor wretches, motherless,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fatherless, homeless, in an alien land,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Daughters, it well may be, of free-born sires,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now condemned to live the life of slaves.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Never, O Zeus who turn’st the tide of war,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Never may I behold a child of mine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus visited, or if such lot must be,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>May it not fall while Deianira lives.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such dread, as I behold these maids, is mine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">To Iolè.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Say, who art thou, most miserable girl,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mother or maid? To judge thee by thy looks</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou hast full warrant of virginity,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yea and of high birth. Lichas, who is she?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who was her father, and her mother? Speak.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her most of all I pity, for she shows</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alone the sense of her calamity.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How should I know? Why question me? Perchance</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She was of noblest lineage in that land.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What, of their kings? Had Eurytus a daughter?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know not, did not question her at length.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Did’st thou not even learn her name from one</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of her companions?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No, I had my work</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To do, and had no time for questioning.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then speak to <em>me</em> and tell me who thou art,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Poor maid; it grieves me truly not to know.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, if she opens now her lips, ’twill be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unlike her former self, for hitherto</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She hath not uttered word or syllable;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But still in travail with her heavy grief</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She weeps and stays not weeping since she left</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her wind-swept home. ’Tis sad and ill for her,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This melancholy, yet ’tis natural.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Leave her in peace and let her pass within,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As is her humour. Heaven forbid that I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Should add another to her present pains,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Enough God knows. Now let us all go in,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thou may’st start at once upon thy way.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I make all things ready in the house. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exeunt <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</b> and Captives.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So be it, but first tarry here awhile</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thou may’st learn in private who are these</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whom thou dost welcome ’neath thy roof, and hear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Matters of import still untold, whereof</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have full cognisance.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What meanest thou?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why dost thou bid me pause and stay my steps?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Stay them and listen. As my former news</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was worth the hearing, so methinks is this.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Say, shall I call the others back to hear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or wouldst thou speak with me and these alone?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>With thee and these; the rest are well away.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>See, they are gone; proceed then with thy tale.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yon fellow spake not the straightforward truth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In aught he told thee; either now he’s false,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or else before was no true messenger.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How say’st thou? Tell me clearly all thy mind.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These covert hints I cannot understand.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Twas for this maiden’s sake (I heard the man,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And many witnesses were by, declare it)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That Heracles laid prostrate in the dust</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Oechalia’s battlements and Eurytus.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Love was his leader, love alone inspired</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This doughty deed, not his base servitude</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As bondsman under Lydian Omphalè,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor ruth for Iphitus hurled headlong down,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As Lichas feigned, who shrank to tell of love.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So, when he failed to win her sire’s consent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To give the maiden for his paramour,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Picking some petty cause of quarrel, he</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Made war upon her land (the land in which</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Eurytus, as the herald said, was King)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And slew the prince her sire and sacked the town.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now, as thou see’st, he comes and sends before him</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The maiden, with set purpose, to his house,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not as a slave—how could he so intend,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Seeing his heart is kindled with love’s fire?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So I determined, Queen, to tell thee all</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I had heard from Lichas; many heard it too</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who stood with me in the Trachinian throng,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And can convict him. If my words give pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It grieves me, but, alas, they are too true.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah me unhappy! in what plight I stand!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What bane have I received beneath my roof,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unwitting, for my ruin! Is she then</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A nameless maid, as he who brought her sware?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, she hath name and fame, a princess born,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Iolè, daughter of King Eurytus;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This girl whose parents Lichas could not tell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Because, forsooth, he had not questioned her.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A curse on evil doers, most on him</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who by deceit worketh iniquity!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My friends, what shall I do? this latest news</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bewilders me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Go in and question Lichas;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perchance, if pressed, he’ll tell thee all the truth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There’s reason in thy counsel; I will go.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And I—shall I remain, or what would’st thou</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I should do?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Remain, for here he comes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without my summons, of his own accord.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Re-enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lady, what message shall I bear my lord?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Instruct me; I am starting, as thou see’st.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou cam’st at leisure, but dost part in haste,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And hast no time for further talk with me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If thou wouldst question me, I wait thy pleasure.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Say, dost thou reverence the honest truth?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So help me Zeus, I’ll speak what truth I know.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Who is this woman then whom thou hast brought?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Euboean; of her parents I know naught.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hark, sirrah, look me in the face: dost know</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To whom thou speakest?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Who art thou to ask me?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Be pleased to answer, if thou hast the wit.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>To my most gracious mistress whom I serve,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Daughter of Oeneus, spouse of Heracles,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Deianira, if I be not blind.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My question’s answered to the point. Thou sayest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She is thy sovereign.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Whom I am bound to serve.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then tell me what should be thy punishment,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If in thy duty thou art proved to fail.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fail in my duty? What dark riddle is this?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My words are plain, the riddling speech is thine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I go; I was a fool to stay for thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Depart, but answer one brief question first.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ask what thou wilt; thou hast a wagging tongue.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That captive whom thou broughtest here—thou know’st</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The maid I mean?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know, and what of her?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Said’st thou not she thou scarce dost know by sight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was Iolè, the child of Eurytus?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>To whom and when? What witness canst thou bring</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To vouch for hearing such a tale from me?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Scores of our townsfolk—all the multitude</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That heard thee mid the great Trachinian throng.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They may have said so, but the vulgar bruit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of mere surmise is not strict evidence.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“Surmise,” quotha! Did’st thou not say on oath,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“I am bringing home a bride for Heracles”?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“Bringing a bride?” Dear lady, tell me, pray,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who is this stranger?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Messenger</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>One who heard thy tale</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How a whole city fell for love of her,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That ’twas the passion kindled by her eyes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And not the Lydian queen who sacked the town.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Send him away, good lady; ’tis not wise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To bandy folly with a brain-sick fool.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, by the god, I pray, who hurls his bolts</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On Oeta’s wooded heights, hold nothing back;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To no ungenerous woman wilt thou speak,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But one that knows the inconstancy of men,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who e’en in joys delight not in one kind.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The gamester who would pit himself ’gainst Love</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is ill advised. Love rules at will the gods,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And me—why not then others weak as I?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So were I mad indeed either to blame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My husband stricken with love’s malady,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or her the partner of his dalliance:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That brings to them no shame or wrong to me.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have more sense. But if he taught thee thus</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To lie, the lesson thou hast learnt is base;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or if thy fraud is self-taught, thou art like</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To prove most cruel, meaning to be kind.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nay, tell me the whole truth. The name of liar</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is to the free-born man a deadly brand.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And think not that thy lying will not out,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For many heard thy tale and will inform me.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Art thou afraid of me? Thy fears are vain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Twould vex me much not to be told the truth;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To know it hurts not. Hath not Heracles</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Had loves before (no mortal more than he)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And no one of them ever had harsh word</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or taunt from me; nor shall this maid, howe’er</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She dotes, consumed with passion, on my lord.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nay, my heart bled for pity seeing her</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whose beauty was her bane; poor innocent,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who brought to wrack and bondage her own land.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All that is past and over, let it sail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Adown the stream of time. But O, be thou,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whate’er thou art to others, true to me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Heed her, she counsels well, and thou shalt win</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her commendation soon, and thanks from me</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, then, dear mistress, since I see thou hast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A human feeling for the infirmities</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of poor humanity, I will tell thee all</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Frankly and fully. ’Tis as this man saith;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The overmastering passion that inspired</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The soul of Heracles was for this maid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And for her sake he sacked Oechalia,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Her desolate home. This much in his defence</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I needs must add, he ne’er himself denied</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor bade me hide it from thee. It was I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fearing to wound thee, lady, I who sinned,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If such concealment should be deemed a sin.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now, lady, that thou know’st the tale in full,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For both your sakes—thine own no less than his—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Suffer this maiden gladly, and abide</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By the kind words thou spak’st concerning her.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For he who never yielded to a foe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By her was vanquished and by love laid low.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>This way my thoughts too, as thou bidst, inclined,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor will I fondly aggravate my trouble</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By warring against Heaven. Let us indoors,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thou may’st bear a message to my lord,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, as a fit return for gifts received,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My gift withal. It were not meet that thou</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Should’st leave me empty-handed, having come</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Accompanied by such a goodly train. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exeunt <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</b> and <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Many a trophy of war the Cyprian bears away;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To tell of the triumphs she wins o’er gods I may not stay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How the Olympian King and the Lord of the realms of night,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yea, and the Shaker of Earth, Poseidon, owns her might.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fitter theme for my song the well-matched champion pair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rivals who entered the lists to win the hand of the fair.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dread the strife, and the sky with dust of battle was full.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>One was a river-god, four-footed and horned like a bull,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Oeneadae was his home and Achelous his name;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But from Thebè, beloved of Bacchus, the other came,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With bow and with brandished club and javelins twain at his side,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Child of Zeus. So they met and fought for a winsome bride.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But with her umpire wand the Cyprian Queen was there,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Goddess who rules the fight and assigns the hand of the fair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Hark! the thud of fisted blow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Crash of horns and twanging bow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Grapplings close-entwined, and now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Buttings of the hornèd brow;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And amid the storm, in tones</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Faint and muffled, deep-drawn groans.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">But afar upon the sward</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Sat the tender tearful maid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">While in doubt the battle swayed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Musing who should be her lord.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Long she sat and wept forlorn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Then, like heifer driven to stray,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Weanèd, from her dam away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Sudden from her home was torn.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Friends, while our herald guest is in the house</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Conversing with the captives, ere he leaves,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have stolen forth to speak with you alone;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Partly to tell you what my hands have wrought,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And to command your sympathy. This maid—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No maiden she but mistress now, methinks—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have harboured (as some merchant takes on board</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>An over-freight) to wreck my peace of mind.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now we twain must share a common couch,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To one lord wedded. Such the recompense</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That Heracles, whom I was wont to extol</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As model of all virtue, makes me now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For all my faithful service as a wife.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet to be wroth with one like him, infect</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With this love-plague, I cannot bring myself;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But then to share his bed and board with her—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What wife could bear it? She’s the budding rose,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I o’erblown and withering on the thorn.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Men cull the flower and when the bloom has fled</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fling it far from them. This then is my fear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That Heracles will leave me the bare name</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of consort, while the younger is his wife.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But, as I said, ’tis folly to be wroth.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have a better way to ease my pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A remedy that I will now reveal.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stored in an urn of brass I long have kept</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A keepsake of the old-world monster; this</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The shaggy-breasted Nessus gave to me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While yet a girl, and from his wounded side</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I took it as he lay at point of death;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nessus who ferried wayfarers for hire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Across the deep Evenus in his arms,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without the help of oar or sail. I too,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When first I went with Heracles, a bride</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Assigned him by my sire, I too was borne</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On his broad shoulders, and in mid-stream he</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Touched me with wanton hands. I shrieked aloud,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He turned, the son of Zeus, and straight let fly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A winged shaft that, whizzing in the air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pierced to the lungs. Faint with approaching death</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Centaur spake: “Daughter of Oeneus old,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This profit of my ferrying at least,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As last of all I’ve ferried, shall be thine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If thou wilt heed me. Gather with thy hands</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The clotted gore that curdles round my wound,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Just where the Hydra, Lerna’s monstrous breed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Has tinged the barbed arrow with her gall.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus shalt thou have a charm to bind the heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Heracles, and never shall he look</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On wife or maid to love her more than thee.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So I bethought me of this philtre, friends,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which since the Centaur’s death I had preserved</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Locked in a secret place, and I have smeared</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This robe as he directed while he lived.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My work is now accomplished. Far from me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be thought of evil witch-craft or desire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To learn it; wives who try such arts I hate.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But how by love-charms I may win again</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My Heracles and wean him from this maid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This I have planned—unless indeed I seem</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O’erwanton; if ye think so, I desist.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If thou hast warranty thy charm will work,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We think that thou hast counselled not amiss.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No warrant, for I have not tried it yet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But of its potency I am assured.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Without experiment there cannot be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Assurance, howsoever firm thy faith.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, we shall know ere long, for there I see</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lichas just starting; he is at the gate.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only do you be secret; e’en dark deeds</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If they be done in darkness bring no blame.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What are thy orders, child of Oeneus, say;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Already I have tarried over long.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Whilst thou wert talking with the maids within</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have been busied, Lichas, with thy charge,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This robe; ’twas woven by my hands, a gift</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thou must carry to my absent lord.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Instruct him straitly, when thou givest it,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That he, and none before him, put it on;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And let no sunlight, nor the altar flame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Behold it, nor the fire upon his hearth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till he stand forth in sight of all arrayed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For gods to see it, at some solemn feast.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For I had vowed, if ever I should see</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or hear for certain of his safe return,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To invest him in this newly-woven robe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And so present him duly to the gods,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A votary for the sacrifice new-dight.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And as a token point him out this seal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The impress of my signet-ring, that he</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="dl2">
|
||
<span>Will surely recognise.</span>
|
||
<span>Now go thy way,</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And heed the rule of messengers, nor let</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy zeal outrun thy orders, but so act</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thou may’st win a double meed of thanks</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For service rendered both to him and me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Call me no master of the mystery</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Hermes, if in ought I trip or fail—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Deliver not this casket as it is,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And add in attestation of the gift</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy very words.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou may’st be going now.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How things are in the house thou know’st full well.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know, and will report all safe and sound.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And thou canst tell him of the captive maid—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How kindly I received and welcomed her.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, I was filled with wonder and delight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What further message have I? None, I fear;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To tell him of my longing were too soon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before I know that he too longs for me. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exeunt <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Lichas</b> and <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Ye who on Oeta dwell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Or where the hot springs well</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And down the cliffs their steaming waters pour;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Or by the inmost shore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Malis, where the golden-arrowed Maid</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Haunts the green glade,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where at thy Gates, far-famed from times of old,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Greeks counsel hold;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Soon shall the clear-voiced flute</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Sweet as Apollo’s lute,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Echo amid your hills and vales again,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">No sad funereal strain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But hymeneals meet for gods to hear.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">For now he draweth near,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Zeus-born conqueror, Alemena’s son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">His victory won.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Him twelve weary months we wait.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Wondering what may be his fate;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And his true wife wastes away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Pining at her lord’s delay.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">But the War-god, with his foes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Wroth, has given at last repose.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Spread the sail and ply the oar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Waft him, breezes, from the shore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Where to Zeus, his vows all paid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Sacrifices he hath made.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">May the magic mantle fire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">All his heart with fond desire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Speed him to his true love’s arms</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Captive to her subtle charms.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Maidens, I fear I have been over bold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And ill advised in all I did of late.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What mean’st thou, Deianira, Oeneus’ child.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know not, but I tremble lest deceived</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By fond hopes I have wrought a grievous harm.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou speak’st not of thy gift to Heracles?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis so; and I would henceforth counsel none</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To act in haste, unless the issue’s clear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Tell, if thou may’st, the cause of thy alarm.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My friends, a thing has come to pass, so strange</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That, if I tell it, you will deem you hear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A miracle. The flock of wool wherewith</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en now I smeared the festal robe (’twas plucked</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From a white fleece) has disappeared, untouched</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By aught within the house, but self-consumed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It wasted, melting on the flags, away.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But all that chanced I will relate in full.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The precepts given me by the Centaur-beast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What time the barb was rankling in his side,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fixed in my memory, like some ordinance</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Graven on brass indelible, I kept.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All that he then commanded me I did:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He bade me hide in some dark nook the salve,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Remote from firelight and the sun’s hot ray,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till I had need to use it, freshly smeared.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And so I did, and, when the occasion rose,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I took a tuft of wool that I had plucked</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From one of our home flock; therewith I spread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The unguent in my chamber privily;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then folded and within its coffer laid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Safe from the sunlight, as ye saw, my gift.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But as I passed indoors behold a sight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Portentous, well nigh inconceivable.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It chanced that I had thrown the hank of wool</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Used for the smearing into the full blaze</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of sunlight; with the gradual warmth dissolved</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It shrank and shrivelled up till naught was left</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Save a fine powder, likest to the dust</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That strews the ground when sawyers are at work—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mere dust and ashes. But from out the spot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where lay the strewments clotted froth upwelled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As when the spilth of Bacchus, from the grapes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>New pressed and purple, on the ground is poured.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus I for trouble know not where to turn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And only see a fearful thing I have done.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why should the dying Centaur then have shown</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Regard for me, the author of his death?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Impossible! no, he was cozening me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And sought, through me, his slayer to undo.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Too late, too late, when knowledge naught avails,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My eyes are opened. I alone am doomed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(Unless my fears prove false) to slay my lord.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I know the shaft that slew the Centaur scathed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en Cheiron, though a god, and any beast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It touches dies. So the black venomed gore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That from the wound of Nessus oozed must slay</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Likewise my lord. Thus I, alas, must think.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Howbeit I am resolved, if fall he must,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The selfsame stroke of fate shall end my days.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What woman noble born would dare live on</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dishonoured when her fair repute is gone?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis true dread perils threaten; yet ’twere well</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To cherish hope till the event be known.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>They who have counselled ill cannot admit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One ray of hope to fortify their soul.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Men will not look severely on an act</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unwittingly committed, as was thine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>With a good conscience one might urge this plea</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which ill becomes a partner in the crime.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Twere better to refrain from further speech,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unless thou wouldst address thy son; for he</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who went to seek his father is at hand.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Mother, I would that of three wishes one</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Were granted me—that thou wert lying dead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or, if alive, no mother wert of mine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or that thy nature might be wholly changed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What dost thou so abhor in me, my son?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Woman, I tell thee thou hast done to death</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy husband, yea my sire, this very day.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah me! what word hath passed thy lips, my son?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A word that of fulfilment shall not fail;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For what is done no mortal can undo.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What say’st thou, son? What warranty is thine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To charge me with a deed so terrible?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The evidence of my eyes; myself I saw</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My father’s anguish; ’tis no hearsay charge.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Where didst thou find him? wast thou by his side?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>As thou must hear it, I must tell thee all.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He had sacked the famous town of Eurytus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And thence returning rich with spoils of war,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Had reached a sea-washed promontory, named</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cenaeum, where Euboea fronts the north.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There I first met him as he marked the bounds</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of altars and a sacred grove to Zeus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His father. At the sight my heart was glad.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He stood addressed to offer sacrifice,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A lordly hecatomb, when Lichas came,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His own familiar herald, bringing him</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy gift, the fatal robe; he put it on</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>According to thy precept; then began</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His sacrifice with twice six faultless bulls,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The firstfruits of the booty; but in all</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A hundred victims at the altar bled.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At first, poor wretch, with joyous air serene,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Proud of the glory of his robe, he prayed;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But when the blood-red flame began to blaze</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From the high altars and the resinous pine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A sweat broke out upon him; and the coat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stuck to his side, and clung to every limb,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Glued, as it were, by some skilled artisan.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A pricking pain began to rack his bones.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Soon the fell venom of the hydra dire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Worked inward and devoured him. Thereupon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He called for Lichas, who, poor witless wretch,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Had in thy guilt no part or lot, demanding</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who hatched the plot and why he had brought the robe.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The youth unwitting said it was thy gift,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thine only, and delivered as ’twas sent.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While yet he listened a convulsive spasm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shot through his lungs. He caught him by the foot,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Just at the ankle joint, and hurled him full</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Against a rock out-jutting from the foam:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His skull was crushed to fragments, and his hair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bedaubed with blood and flecked with scattered brains.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A cry of horror from the crowd arose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At sight of one distraught and one struck dead;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And no man dared to face him, for the pain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now dragged him down, now made him leap in air,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>While with his yells and screams the rocks resound</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From Locrian headlands to Euboean capes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But when his agony had spent itself—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now writhing prone, now making loud lament,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With curses on his marriage bed and thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bride he won from Oeneus for his bane—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From out the cloud of smoke that compassed him</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He wildly gazed and spied me in the throng</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Weeping, and fixed his eye on me and spake:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Come hither, boy, shun not my misery,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en if my son must share his father’s death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But bear me hence and set me, if thou wilt,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where none shall see me more, no matter where;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or if thou hast no heart for this, at least</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ferry me quickly hence, lest here I die.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So he enjoined. We laid him on the deck</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In torment, groaning loud; and presently</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye shall behold him living or just dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Such, mother, is the evil ’gainst my sire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thou hast planned and wrought. Thy guilt is plain:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>May Vengeance and the Erinys visit thee!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So pray I, if ’tis right, and right it is,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For I have seen thee trample on the right,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Slaying the noblest man who ever lived,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whose peer thou never shalt behold again. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Deianira</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Why dost thou steal away thus silently?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such silence sure is eloquent of guilt.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Let her depart and speed before the gale</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Out of my sight. Why should the empty name</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of mother henceforth swell her vanity,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who in her deeds shows naught of motherhood?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let her depart in peace, and may she share</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Herself the happiness she brings my sire!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Lo, maidens, in our eyes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Fulfilled this day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The word inspired of ancient prophecies.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Did not the god’s voice say,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The twelfth year, when its tale of months is run,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Shall end his toils for Zeus’s true-born son?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">That promise doth not fail,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">’Tis wafted on the gale.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Can he when once the light of life has fled</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Be subject still to bondage ’mongst the dead?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">And if the mists of death enfold him now,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">If the doom grips his heart,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Wrought by the Centaur’s art;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">How racked by venom bred</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Of Death, on asp’s blood fed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">How in the clutches of the Hydra, how</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Can he survive to see to-morrow’s sun,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">When through each vein doth run</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">The leprous bane prepared</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">By the fell beast, black-haired</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Nessus, his life to drain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And vex him with tumultuous pain?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Of this our ill-starred queen,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">All innocent, knew naught:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Only the curse to void, I ween,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Of a new bride she sought,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Witless a stranger’s remedy she used.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">How was her fond simplicity abused!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Too late her error doth she rue,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">And pearly tears her eyes bedew:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Awe-stricken we await</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">The swoop of instant fate.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Our pent up tears outflow.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Ye gods! did e’er such blow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">From his worst foes afflict our King before</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">As this fell plague? O bloodstained spear that bore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">From proud Oechalia’s height</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Stormed by the hero’s might,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">A vanished bride, how clear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">The Cyprian’s wiles appear!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Unseen, thy spear she steeled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">And now she stands revealed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Semi-Chorus 1</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Listen! I seem to hear—or do I dream?—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A cry of sorrow pealing through the house.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Heard you it?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Semi-Chorus 2</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, a despairing wail rings out within,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Distinct; the house has suffered something strange.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Mark ye that aged crone!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With what a cloud upon her puckered brow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She comes to bring us news of grave import!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</b> from the house.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My daughters, what a crop of miseries</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We are reaping from that gift to Heracles!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What new misfortune, mother, hast to tell?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Deianira has departed hence</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On her last journey, yet not stirred a step.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou canst not mean she is dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My tale is told.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Poor lady, dead?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I say it once again.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alas, poor wretch! How came she by her end?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O ’twas a gruesome deed!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Say woman, how?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>By her own hand.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What rage, what fit of madness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whetted the felon blade, how compassed she</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This death on death, herself alone the cause?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>By the stroke of a dolorous sword.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Saw’st thou the horror, beldam?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I saw it; I was standing at her side.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Saw what? what did she? speak!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Herself upon herself she did the deed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What dost thou say?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Plain truth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Verily this new bride</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hath borne, as the fruit of her womb,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A curse, a curse to the house.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Too true; and had you been at hand to see,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The pity of it would have touched you more.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Could woman’s hand perform so bold a deed!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Nurse</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Twas passing strange, but when ye hear the tale</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="dl2">
|
||
<span>Ye’ll bear me out.</span>
|
||
<span>She went indoors alone,</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in the court she came upon her son</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Preparing a deep litter wherewithal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To bear his sire back. Seeing him she fled,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, crouching by the altar out of sight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She groaned aloud, “O altars desolate!”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then each familiar chattel in the house</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She fingered tenderly, poor wretch, and wept.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then roaming through the palace, up and down,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As one or other of her maids she met,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She gazed upon her long and wept again,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bewailing her own fortunes and the house</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Henceforth condemned to serve an alien lord.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then she was silent, and I saw her speed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Within the bed chamber of Heracles.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I from a coign of spial, unobserved</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Watched, and I saw her snatch a coverpane</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And fling it on the bed of Heracles.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That done, she leapt upon it, sat her down</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And loosed the floodgate of hot tears and spake:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“O bridal bed and chamber, fare ye well,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A long farewell; never again shall ye</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lap me to slumber in your soft embrace!”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That was her last word; with a sudden wrench</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She tore the gold-wrought brooch above her breast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And laid her left arm and her side all bare.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I ran at once, as fast as age allowed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In haste to warn the son of her intent.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alack! between my going and return,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In that brief space, she had driven a two-edged sword</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Home through the midriff to the very heart.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He saw and shrieked heart-stricken at the sight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Knowing his wrath had goaded her to death.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For all too late from those about the queen</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He learned that she in utter innocence</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Had done according to the Centaur’s word.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Since then, poor boy, his misery has no end:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He mourned for her with sighs and sobs and groans,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He kissed her lips, he clasped her in his arms,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And prone beside her railed against himself:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“By my foul slander have I stricken her,”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He cried, “and now am I bereaved of both,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of father and of mother, in one day.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So fares it with us. And if any man</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Counts on the morrow, or on morrows more,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He reckons rashly. Morrow is there none,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Until to-day its course has safely run.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Which first of woes, which next,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Wherewith my soul is vext,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">To wail, I am perplext,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">One here accomplishèd,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">One hanging o’er my head,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">One as the other dread.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O that a gale might suddenly upspring</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">To waft me out of sight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest when the Zeus-born hero home they bring,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">I die of panic fright.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en now, they say, in pains no leech can quell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Home is he borne, O piteous spectacle!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah, not far off, but nigh,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The woe that stirred my cry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">A boding wail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As of some shrill-voiced nightingale.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Lo a foreign train appear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And they move with muffled tread,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Mute as bearers of a bier.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Is it sleep, or is he dead?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</b>, an <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Old Man</b>, and Attendants bearing <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</b> on a litter.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Ah woe is me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Woe, father, woe for thee!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Alack! I am undone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Help know I none.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Old Man</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Hush, son, lest thou awake</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">The intolerable ache.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">He lives, though nigh to death;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Hold hard thy breath.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">What, is he still alive?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Old Man</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Hush, hush, lest thou revive</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">And waken from its fitful rest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">The plague that racks his breast.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Beneath this weight of misery</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">My spirit sinks; it maddens me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">O Zeus, where am I? who</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">These strangers standing by,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">As tortured here I lie?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Ah me! the foul fiend gnaws anew.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Old Man</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Did I not bid thee keep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Silence, nor scare the sleep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That over eyes and head</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Awhile like balm was spread?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, how can I refrain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>At sight of such grim pain?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O altar on Cenaean height,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How ill dost thou requite</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My sacrifice and offerings!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O Zeus, thy worship ruin brings.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Accursed headland, would that ne’er</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My eyes had seen thine altar-stair!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So had I ’scaped this frenzied rage</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No incantation can assuage.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where is the charmer, where the leech,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whose art a remedy could teach,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Save Zeus alone? If one could tell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of such a wizard, ’twere a miracle.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O leave me, let me lie</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In my last agony!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ye touch me? have a care!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would turn me? O forbear!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To agony ye wake</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The slumbering ache.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Once more it has me in its grip, the fiend comes on apace.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O Greeks, if ye be Greeks indeed, most faithless of your race!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For you I laboured hugely and spent myself, to free</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your land from ravening beasts of prey and monsters of the sea;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now in long drawn agony ye leave me to expire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will none of you deliver me with sword or kindly fire?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Would God that I were dead!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Will no man sever at a stroke this head?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Old Man</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O help me, son of Heracles, for I am all too frail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To ease him; if thou lend thine aid, perchance we may prevail.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That will I, but nor thou nor I can rid him of the pain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That haunts him to the very end Such doom the gods ordain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 3</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My son, where art thou? Raise me, hold me here, here!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah me! once more the pest doth leap</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon me and its fangs bite deep.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Pallas! ’tis torture. O for pity save</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy father; son, unsheath an innocent glaive,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pierce thy sire’s heart and so the wild pain cure</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That from thine impious mother I endure.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus may I see her die, like mine her end!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 3</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Brother of Zeus, kind Death, be now my friend;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lay me to rest and swift deliverance send.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I shudder, friends, to hear this woeful plaint.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How great a hero, and how ill bestead!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Many and grievous, not in name alone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The toils and burdens of these hands, these loins.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet trial like to this was never set me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By Heaven’s Queen or grim Eurystheus’ hate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such as the child of Oeneus, false and fair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hath fastened on my back, this hellish net</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She wove to snare me, in whose coils I die.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It hugs me close, it eats into my flesh,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It sucks the channels of my breath, hath drained</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My life-blood, and my whole frame wastes and withers,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fast locked in these unutterable bonds.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And this my fall no warrior’s lance hath wrought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor Giant’s earth-born brood, nor savage beast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor Grecian nor barbarian, nor the lands</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whither I fared to rid them of their pests;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No, but a woman, weak as all her sex,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hath quelled me, single-handed and unarmed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Son, show thyself thy father’s son in deed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mine, not thy mother’s—mother in name alone.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hale her thyself, hand her thyself to me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The wretch, that when she meets her righteous doom</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I may make trial which sight moves thee more,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A mother’s or a father’s agony.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For pity’s sake shrink not; to see me thus</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(’Twould move to pity e’en a heart of stone)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Puling and weeping like a girl, unmanned.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So none can boast to have seen me, for till now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I took whate’er befell me with a smile.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now—’tis I who play the woman now.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Come closer, stand beside me; see, my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To what a pass ill fate hath brought thy sire.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lo, I will lift the veil; look all of you</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On this poor maimèd body, and declare</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was ever wretch so piteous as I.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah me!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Again the deadly spasm; it shoots and burns</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through all my vitals. Will it never end,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This struggle with the never-dying worm?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lord of the Dead, receive me!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Smite me, O fire of Zeus!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hurl, Father, on my head thy crashing bolt!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Again it burgeons, blossoms, blazes forth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="dl2">
|
||
<span>The all-consuming plague.</span>
|
||
<span>O hands, my hands,</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Arms, breast and shoulders, once all puissant,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are ye the same whose thews of old subdued</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The scourge of herdsmen in his savage lair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Nemean lion, a beast untamable;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Slew the Lenaean hydra; overcame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That twy-form multitude, half man, half horse,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rude, lawless, savage, unapproachable,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unmatched in might; and the Erymanthian boar;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Tamed in the nether world the monstrous whelp</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of dread Echidna, the three-headed hound</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Hades, and the dragon-guard who watched</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The golden apples at the world’s far end.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These were my toils, and others manifold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And none could ever boast of my defeat.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now out of joint, a thing of shreds I lie</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Baffled by hands invisible, I who claim</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A mother of the noblest, and for sire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The ruler of the starry heavens, Zeus.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But of one thing be sure, though I am naught</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And cannot stir a step, yet even thus</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am a match for her who wrought my woe.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let her but come that she may learn of me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This lesson to repeat to all, that I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Living and dying chastened all that’s vile.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O hapless Greece, what mourning will be thine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If thou must lose thy mightiest warrior?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O father, since thy silence seems to invite</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>An answer, hear me, stricken though thou art.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall but ask what’s fair; O be again</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy true self, not by pain and rage distraught;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Else wilt thou never learn how vain thy thirst</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For vengeance, how unjust thy bitterness.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Say what thou wilt and end; I am too sick</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To catch the drift of all thy riddling words.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis of my mother I would tell thee—how</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She fares, and how unwittingly she sinned.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O shameless reprobate, thou dar’st to name</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy father’s murderess, name her too to me?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Her case is such that silence were unmeet.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Unmeet in truth, because of her past crimes.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And of her deeds this day, as thou wilt own.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Speak, but I fear thy speech will prove thee base.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hear then. She is dead, slain but an hour agone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>By whom? this portent likes me not; ’tis strange.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>By her own hand, none other, was she slain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Out on her! she hath baulked my just revenge.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>E’en thou wouldst soften if thou knewest all.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A wondrous prologue! make thy meaning plain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The sum is this: she erred with good intent.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>“Good,” say’st thou, wretch? Was it good to slay thy sire?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, when she saw thy new bride, she devised</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A charm to win thee back, but was misled.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Could Trachis boast a wizard of such might?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The Centaur Nessus taught her long ago</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How to enkindle in thy heart love’s flame.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alas, alas! I am undone, undone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The light of day has left me; now I see</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In what extremity of fate I stand.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Go, son, thy father is no more; go summon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy brethren one and all, go summon too</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alemena, bride of Zeus—an empty name—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That from my dying lips ye all may learn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What oracles I know.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I cannot call</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy mother; she at Tiryns by the sea</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Far hence abides; and of thy children some</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>She took to live with her; others at Thebes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As thou may’st learn, are lodged; but all of us</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here present, father, will obey thy hest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then listen thou and heed me. Now’s the hour</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To prove thy breed—if thou art rightly called</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My son. It was foreshown me by my sire</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I should perish by no living wight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But by a dweller in the realms of Death.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So by this Centaur beast, as was foretold,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I perish, I the living by the dead.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A later oracle, as thou shalt learn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Meets and confirms the ancient prophecy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Twas in the grove whose priests, the Selli, make</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The earth their bed, rude hillsmen, that I heard it</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Breathed by my Father’s oak of many tongues;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Heard it, and wrote it down, my present doom,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now at this living moment brought to pass.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Release it promised from my toils, and I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Augured a happy life, but it meant death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For with the dead there can be no more toil.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Since, then, my weird thus plainly comes to pass,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou, son, must do thy part and lend thine aid.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Delay not till I goad thee in my wrath,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But aid me with a will as one who knows</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The golden rule, a father to obey.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, father, though the issue gives me pause</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I misdoubt thy purport, I’ll obey.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well said, but first lay thy right hand in mine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wherefore impose on me this needless pledge?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy hand at once; obey and argue not.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Here is my hand; I do as I am bid.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now by the head of Zeus my Father swear,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What wouldst thou have me swear? May I not know?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Swear to perform the task that I enjoin.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I will and take the oath, so help me Zeus,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And add thereto the curse on perjurers.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No need, for I shall keep it; yet I will.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou know’st the peak of Oeta, shrine of Zeus?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, I have climbed it oft to sacrifice.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thither thyself, thou with what friends thou wilt,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Must carry me. From the deep-rooted oak</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lop many a branch, and many a faggot hew</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From the wild-olive’s lusty stock, and lay me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon the pyre. Kindle a torch of pine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And fire it. Not a tear or wail or moan!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unweeping, unlamenting must thou do</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy part and prove thou art indeed my son.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fail, and my ghost shall haunt thee ever more.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O father, canst thou mean it? Hear I right?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou hast thy charge. If thou refuse it, get</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Another sire, be called no more my son.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O woe isme! What dost thou ask, that I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Should be thy murderer, a parricide?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not so, but healer of my sufferings,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The one physician that can cure my pains.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How can I heal thy stricken frame by fire?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, if thou shrink from this, perform the rest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The task of bearing thee I will not grudge.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nor yet to heap the pyre, as I have bid?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So that I light it not with my own hands;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All else I will perform and do my part.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That will suffice. But add one other boon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A little one, to crown the great ones given.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It shall be granted, be it ne’er so great.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou know’st the maiden, child of Eurytus?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Methinks thou meanest Iolè.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>None else.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This is my charge to thee concerning her.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I am dead, if thou wouldst keep the oath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou sworest to obey thy father’s will,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Take her to wife, let not another have her</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who by my side hath lain; but thine, my son—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thine let her be, joined in the marriage bond.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Much hast thou granted, to refuse one more,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One little boon, would cancel all the score.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah me! ’tis ill to quarrel with one sick—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But who could bear to see him in this mind?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy murmuring augurs disobedience;</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What her, the sole cause of my mother’s death,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And worse, the cause of this thy grievous plight!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who, were he not possessed of fiends, would do it?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Better, my father, I with thee should die</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than live united with our direst foe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The boy, it seems, is not inclined to heed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A father’s dying prayer; but heaven’s curse</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Awaits full sure a disobedient son.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I fear thy frenzy soon will show itself.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, for thou wakenest my pain that slept.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O what a coil of dread perplexities!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Because thou wilt not deign to heed thy sire.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What, must I learn impiety from thee?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis piety to glad a father’s heart.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have thy warrant then for what I do?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I call the gods to witness it is just.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then I consent and hesitate no more.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let heaven attest this act of thine, for I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cannot be blamed for filial piety.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou endest well. Now crown thy gracious words</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With action; haste and lay me on the pyre</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before the spasms and fever-fit return.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">To Attendants.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ho, haste and lift me. Thus I find repose</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The end and consummation of my woes.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Since, father, this thou straitly dost command,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Naught hinders the fulfilment of thy will.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Rouse, arm thyself, O stubborn heart,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Before again the plague upstart;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Set on thy lips a curb of steel,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Thy mouth let stony silence seal;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Go meet thy doom without a cry,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">A victim, happy thus to die.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Hyllus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Lift him, men, nor take amiss</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">That I bear a part in this.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">We are blameless, but confess</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">That the gods are pitiless.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Children they beget, and claim</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Worship in a father’s name,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Yet with apathetic eye</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Look upon such agony.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">What is yet to be none knows,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">But the present’s fraught with woes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Woes for us, for them deep shame;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">And of all beneath the sun</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Worse than he hath suffered none.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Come, maidens, come away!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Horrors have ye seen this day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Dire death and direr fall:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">And Zeus hath wrought it all. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exeunt omnes.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="endnotes" epub:type="endnotes backmatter">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Endnotes</h2>
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<p>The Peleads were the priestesses of Dodona who interpreted the rustling of the oak or the cooing of the sacred doves and their name in folk etymology was identified with <i lang="grc-Latn" xml:lang="grc-Latn">peleiai</i>, doves. <a href="#noteref-1" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
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<h2 epub:type="title">Colophon</h2>
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<p><i epub:type="se:name.publication.play">The Trachiniae</i><br/>
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was written between 450 and 425 <abbr epub:type="se:era z3998:initialism">BCE</abbr> by<br/>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles">Sophocles</a>.<br/>
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It was translated from Ancient Greek in <time>1913</time> by<br/>
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<b epub:type="z3998:personal-name">Francis Storr</b>.</p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Osbert">Alphonse Osbert</a>.<br/>
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