Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN Complete

Translated, with Explanatory Notes, by Gilbert Murray.

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Leader

Fall, and men shall forget you! Ye shall lie in the gentle earth.

Hecuba

The dust as smoke riseth; it spreadeth wide its wing;
It maketh me as a shadow, and my City a vanished thing!

Leader

Out on the smoke she goeth,
And her name no man knoweth;
And the cloud is northward, southward; Troy is gone for ever!

[A great crash is heard, and the Wall is lost in smoke and darkness.

Hecuba

Ha! Marked ye? Heard ye? The crash of the towers that fall!

Leader

All is gone!

Hecuba

Wrath in the earth and quaking and a flood that sweepeth all,

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