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eumendides-第7部分

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      Whose children too are we; O goddesses

    Of just award; of all by sacred right

      Queens; who in time and in eternity

    Do rule; a present power for righteousness;

      Honoured beyond all Gods; hear ye and grant my cry!

  ATHENA (chanting)

          And I too; I with joy am fain;

          Hearing your voice this gift ordain

          Unto my land。 High thanks be thine;

          Persuasion; who with eyes divine

          Into my tongue didst look thy strength;

          To bend and to appease at length

            Those who would not be comforted。

          Zeus; king of parley; doth prevail;

          And ye and I will strive nor fail;

            That good may stand in evil's stead;

          And lasting bliss for bale。

  CHORUS (chanting)

          And nevermore these walls within

          Shall echo fierce sedition's din;

            Unslaked with blood and crime;

          The thirsty dust shall nevermore

          Suck up the darkly streaming gore

          Of civic broils; shed out in wrath

          And vengeance; crying death for death!

          But man with man and state with state

          Shall vow The pledge of common hate

          And common friendship; that for man

          Hath oft made blessing; out of ban;

            Be ours unto all time。

  ATHENA (chanting)

        Skill they; or not; the path to find

        Of favouring speech and presage kind?

        Yea; even from these; who; grim and stern;

          Glared anger upon you of old;

        O citizens; ye now shall earn

          A recompense right manifold。

        Deck them aright; extol them high;

        Be loyal to their loyalty;

          And ye shall make your town and land

          Sure; propped on justice' saving hand;

            And Fame's eternity。

  CHORUS (chanting)

        Hail ye; all hail! and yet again; all hail;

          O Athens; happy in a weal secured!

      O ye who sit by Zeus' right hand; nor fail

        Of wisdom set among you and assured;

      Loved of the well…loved Goddess…Maid! the King

    Of gods doth reverence you; beneath her guarding wing。

  ATHENA (chanting)

          All hail unto each honoured guest!

          Whom to the chambers of your rest

          'Tis mine to lead; and to provide

          The hallowed torch; the guard and guide。

          Pass down; the while these altars glow

          With sacred fire; to earth below

            And your appointed shrine。

          There dwelling; from the land restrain

          The force of fate; the breath of bane;

          But waft on us the gift and gain

            Of Victory divine!

          And ye; the men of Cranaos' seed;

          I bid you now with reverence lead

          These alien Powers that thus are made

          Athenian evermore。 To you

          Fair be their will henceforth; to do

            Whate'er may bless and aid!

  CHORUS (chanting)

          Hail to you all! hail yet again;

          All who love Athens; gods and men;

            Adoring her as Pallas' home!

          And while ye reverence what ye grant…

          My sacred shrine and hidden haunt…

            Blameless and blissful be your doom!

  ATHENA

    Once more I praise the promise of your vows;

    And now I bid the golden torches' glow

    Pass down before you to the hidden depth

    Of earth; by mine own sacred servants borne;

    My loyal guards of statue and of shrine。

    Come forth; O flower of Attic land;

    O glorious band of children and of wives;

    And ye; O train of matrons crowned with eld!

    Deck you with festal robes of scarlet dye

    In honour of this day: O gleaming torch;

    Lead onward; that these gracious powers of earth

    Henceforth be seen to bless the life of men。



    (ATHENA leads the procession downwards into the Cave of the

        FURRES; now Eumenides; under the Areopagus: as they

        go; the escort of women and children chant aloud)



  CHANT

    With loyalty we lead you; proudly go;

    Night's childless children; to your home below!

      (O citizens; awhile from words forbear!)

      To darkness' deep primeval lair;

      Far in Earth's bosom; downward fare;

        Adored with prayer and sacrifice。

        (O citizens; forbear your cries!)

      Pass hitherward; ye powers of Dread;

      With all your former wrath allayed;

        Into the heart of this loved land;

      With joy unto your temple wend;

      The while upon your steps attend

        The flames that feed upon the brand…

    (Now; now ring out your chant; your joy's acclaim!)

      Behind them; as they downward fare;

      Let holy hands libations bear;

          And torches' sacred flame。

      All…seeing Zeus and Fate come down

      To battle fair for Pallas' town!

    Ring out your chant; ring out your joy's acclaim!





                    THE END


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