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Ah, ah! Speak like the breath of a slender reed-pipe, my dear, I pray.
Chorus
See, how soft and low I drop my voice.
Electra
Yes, do so; approach now, softly, softly!
Give me an account of why you have come here. For at last he has lain down, and sleeps.
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Chorus
How is he? You give us an account, my dear; what has happened, what misfortune?
Electra
He is still breathing, but his moans grow feeble.
Chorus
What are you saying? turning to Orestes. Unhappy Orestes!
Electra
You will kill him, if you disturb him from the sweet sleep he now enjoys.
Chorus
Poor sufferer, for his hateful deeds, inspired by a god!
Electra
Ah, misery! Injustice it was, after all, from an unjust mouth, when Loxias on the tripod of Themis
decreed my mother’s most unnatural murder.
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Chorus
Do you see? He stirs beneath his robe!
Electra
Alas! Your noisy chatter has roused him from his sleep.
Chorus
No, I think he is asleep.
Electra
Leave us, go away from the house! circle back again! cease this noise!
Chorus
He is asleep.
Electra
You are right.[*] O Lady Night,
giver of sleep to hard-working mortals, come from Erebus, come, wing your way to the palace of Agamemnon.
For with misery and woe we are lost, we are gone.
There! To the Chorus.that noise again! Do be still and keep the sound of your voice
away from his couch; let him enjoy his sleep in peace, my dear!
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Chorus
Tell me, what end of troubles awaits him.
Electra
Death, death; what else? For he has no desire for food.
Chorus
Then his destiny is already clear.
Electra
Phoebus offered us up for sacrifice, when he ordered the pitiable, unnatural murder of our mother, who killed our father.
Chorus
It was just.
Electra
But it was not well done.
You killed and were killed, my mother! and you have slain a father and your own children;
for we are dead or as good as dead. You are in your grave, and the greater part of my life is spent in weeping and wailing,
and tears at night; unmarried, childless, I drag out forever a joyless existence.
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