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the bacchantes-第8部分

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  AGAVE

    Alas! my aged sire; our doom is fixed; 'tis woful exile。

  DIONYSUS

    Why then delay the inevitable? Exit。

  CADMUS

    Daughter; to what an awful pass are we now come; thou too; poor

child; and thy sisters; while I alas! in my old age must seek

barbarian shores; to sojourn there; but the oracle declares that I

shall yet lead an army; half…barbarian; half…Hellene; to Hellas; and

in serpent's shape shall I carry my wife Harmonia; the daughter of

Ares; transformed like me to a savage snake; against the altars and

tombs of Hellas at the head of my troops; nor shall I ever cease

from my woes; ah me! nor ever cross the downward stream of Acheron and

be at rest。

  AGAVE

    Father; I shall be parted from thee and exiled。

  CADMUS

    Alas! my child; why fling thy arms around me; as a snowy cygnet

folds its wings about the frail old swan?

  AGAVE

    Whither can I turn; an exile from my country?

  CADMUS

    I know not; my daughter; small help is thy father now。

  AGAVE

    Farewell; my home! farewell; my native city! with sorrow I am

leaving thee; an exile from my bridal bower。

  CADMUS

    Go; daughter; to the house of Aristaeus;'*'



'* Another large lacuna follows。'



  AGAVE

    Father; I mourn for thee。

  CADMUS

    And I for thee; my child; for thy sisters too I shed a tear。

  AGAVE

    Ah! terribly was king Dionysus bringing this outrage on thy house。

  CADMUS

    Yea; for he suffered insults dire from you; his name receiving

no meed of honour in Thebes。

  AGAVE

    Farewell; father mine!

  CADMUS

    Farewell; my hapless daughter and yet thou scarce canst reach that

bourn。

  AGAVE

    Oh! lead me; guide me to the place where I shall find my

sisters; sharers in my exile to their sorrow! Oh! to reach a spot

where cursed Cithaeron ne'er shall see me more nor I Cithaeron with

mine eyes; where no memorial of the thyrsus is set up! Be they to

other Bacchantes dear!

  CHORUS

    Many are the forms the heavenly will assumes; and many a thing the

gods fulfil contrary to all hope; that which was expected is not

brought to pass; while for the unlooked…for Heaven finds out a way。

E'en such hath been the issue here。

                                                        Exeunt OMNES。

                                    THE END


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