Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN Complete

Translated, with Explanatory Notes, by Gilbert Murray.

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Leader

And passeth on!
[The Greek trumpet sounds.

Hecuba

Farewell! -- O spirit grey,
Whatso is coming,
Fail not from under me.
Weak limbs, why tremble ye?
Forth where the new long day
Dawneth to slavery!

Chorus

Farewell from parting lips,
Farewell! -- Come, I and thou,
Whatso may wait us now,
Forth to the long Greek ships [49]
And the sea's foaming.

[The trumpet sounds again, and the Women go out in the darkness.

[49] Forth to the dark Greek ships.] -- Curiously like another magnificent ending of a great poem, that of the Chanson de Roland, where Charlemagne is called forth on a fresh quest:

"Deus," dist li Reis, "si penuse est ma vie!"
Pluret des oilz, sa barbe blanche tiret....



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