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agamemnon-第7部分

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            Yea; of some doom they tell…

              Each pulse; a knell。

          Lief; lief I were; that all

      To unfulfilment's hidden realm might fall。



                                                            strophe 2



        Too far; too far our mortal spirits strive;

          Grasping at utter weal; unsatisfied…

        Till the fell curse; that dwelleth hard beside;

        Thrust down the sundering wall。 Too fair they blow;

          The gales that waft our bark on Fortune's tide!

          Swiftly we sail; the sooner an to drive

          Upon the hidden rock; the reef of woe。

        Then if the hand of caution warily

          Sling forth into the sea

        Part of the freight; lest all should sink below;

        From the deep death it saves the bark: even so;

          Doom…laden though it be; once more may rise

          His household; who is timely wise。



          How oft the famine…stricken field

    Is saved by God's large gift; the new year's yield!



                                                        antistrophe 2



            But blood of man once spilled;

         Once at his feet shed forth; and darkening the plain;…

           Nor chant nor charm can call it back again。

            So Zeus hath willed:



    Else had he spared the leech Asclepius; skilled

        To bring man from the dead: the hand divine

    Did smite himself with death…a warning and a sign…



        Ah me! if Fate; ordained of old;

    Held not the will of gods constrained; controlled;

        Helpless to us…ward; and apart…

        Swifter than speech my heart

    Had poured its presage out!

    Now; fretting; chafing in the dark of doubt;

        'Tis hopeless to unfold

    Truth; from fear's tangled skein; and; yearning to proclaim

        Its thought; my soul is prophecy and flame。



    (CLYTEMNESTRA comes out of the palace and addresses CASSANDRA;

        who has remained motionless in her chariot。)



  CLYTEMNESTRA

    Get thee within thou too; Cassandra; go!

    For Zeus to thee in gracious mercy grants

    To share the sprinklings of the lustral bowl;

    Beside the altar of his guardianship;

    Slave among many slaves。 What; haughty still?

    Step from the car; Alcmena's son; 'tis said;

    Was sold perforce and bore the yoke of old。

    Ay; hard it is; but; if such fate befall;

    'Tis a fair chance to serve within a home

    Of ancient wealth and power。 An upstart lord;

    To whom wealth's harvest came beyond his hope;

    Is as a lion to his slaves; in all

    Exceeding fierce; immoderate in sway。

    Pass in: thou hearest what our ways will be。

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    Clear unto thee; O maid; is her command;

    But thou…within the toils of Fate thou art…

    If such thy will; I urge thee to obey;

    Yet I misdoubt thou dost nor hear nor heed。

  CLYTEMNESTRA

    I wot…unless like swallows she doth use

    Some strange barbarian tongue from oversea…

    My words must speak persuasion to her soul。

  LEADER

    Obey: there is no gentler way than this。

    Step from the car's high seat and follow her。

  CLYTEMNESTRA

    Truce to this bootless waiting here without!

    I will not stay: beside the central shrine

    The victims stand; prepared for knife and fire…

    Offerings from hearts beyond all hope made glad。

    Thou…if thou reckest aught of my command;

    'Twere well done soon: but if thy sense be shut

    From these my words; let thy barbarian hand

    Fulfil by gesture the default of speech。

  LEADER

    No native is she; thus to read thy words

    Unaided: like some wild thing of the wood;

    New…trapped; behold! she shrinks and glares on thee。

  CLYTEMNESTRA

    'Tis madness and the rule of mind distraught;

    Since she beheld her city sink in fire;

    And hither comes; nor brooks the bit; until

    In foam and blood her wrath be champed away。

    See ye to her; unqueenly 'tis for me;

    Unheeded thus to cast away my words。

                                    (CLYTEMNESTRA enters the palace。)

  LEADER

    But with me pity sits in anger's place。

    Poor maiden; come thou from the car; no way

    There is but this…take up thy servitude。

  CASSANDRA (chanting)

    Woe; woe; alas! Earth; Mother Earth! and thou

    Apollo; Apollo!

  LEADER

    Peace! shriek not to the bright prophetic god;

    Who will not brook the suppliance of woe。

  CASSANDRA (chanting)

    Woe; woe; alas! Earth; Mother Earth! and thou

    Apollo; Apollo!

  LEADER

    Hark; with wild curse she calls anew on him;

    Who stands far off and loathes the voice of wail。

  CASSANDRA (chanting)

    Apollo; Apollo!

    God of all ways; but only Death's to me;

    Once and again; O thou; Destroyer named;

    Thou hast destroyed me; thou; my love of old!

  LEADER

    She grows presageful of her woes to come;

    Slave tho' she be; instinct with prophecy。

  CASSANDRA (chanting)

    Apollo; Apollo!

    God of all ways; but only Death's to me;

    O thou Apollo; thou Destroyer named!

    What way hast led me; to what evil home?

  LEADER

    Know'st thou it not? The home of Atreus' race:

    Take these my words for sooth and ask no more。

  CASSANDRA (chanting)

    Home cursed of God! Bear witness unto me;

    Ye visioned woes within…


    The blood…stained hands of them that smite their kin…

    The strangling noose; and; spattered o'er

    With human blood; the reeking floor!

  LEADER

    How like a sleuth…hound questing on the track;

    Keen…scented unto blood and death she hies!

  CASSANDRA (chanting)

    Ah! can the ghostly guidance fail;

    Whereby my prophet…soul is onwards led?

    Look! for their flesh the spectre…children wail;

    Their sodden limbs on which their father fed!

  LEADER

    Long since we knew of thy prophetic fame;…

    But for those deeds we seek no prophet's tongue…

  CASSANDRA (chanting)

    God! 'tis another crime…

    Worse than the storied woe of olden time;

    Cureless; abhorred; that one is plotting here…

    A shaming death; for those that should be dear

      Alas! and far away; in foreign land;

      He that should help doth stand!

  LEADER

      I knew th' old tales; the city rings withal…

      But now thy speech is dark; beyond my ken。

  CASSANDRA (chanting)

      O wretch; O purpose fell!

 



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