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Hecuba (429-450)

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Yes, if he lives, which I doubt; so luckless am I in every way.
Polyxena
He lives; and, when you die, he will close your eyes.
Hecuba
I am dead; sorrow has forestalled death here.
Polyxena
Come veil my head, Odysseus, and take me away; for now, before the fatal blow, my heart is melted by my mothers wailing, and hers by mine.
O light of day! for still I may call you by your name, though now my share in you is only the time I take to go between Achilles tomb and the sword. Odysseus and his attendants lead Polyxena away.
Hecuba
Alas! I faint; my limbs sink under me. O my daughter, embrace your mother, stretch out your hand,
give it to me; do not leave me childless! Ah, friends! it is my death-blow. Oh! to see that Spartan woman, Helen, sister of the sons of Zeus, in such a plight; for her bright eyes have caused the shameful fall of Troys once prosperous town. Hecuba sinks fainting to the ground.
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Chorus
O breeze, breeze of the sea,
that wafts swift galleys, oceans coursers, across the surging main! Where will you bear me, the sorrowful one? To whose house shall I be brought, to be his slave and chattel?
to some haven in the Dorian land, or in Phthia, where men say Apidanus, father of fairest streams, makes fat and rich the soil?

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