<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0011.tlg007.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="choral"><div type="textpart" subtype="strophe" n="1"><sp><l n="1695">what you have encountered is not to be blamed.</l></sp></div><milestone unit="card" n="1697"/><div type="textpart" subtype="antistrophe" n="1"><sp><speaker>Antigone</speaker><l n="1697">There is longing even for woes. What was in no way dear was dear, so long as I held him in my embrace.</l><l n="1700">Father, Dear, clothed in the darkness of the underworld forever! Never in your absence will you not be dear to me and to my sister here.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="1704" part="I">He fared—</l></sp><sp><speaker>Antigone</speaker><l n="1704a" part="F">He fared as he desired.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="1705" part="I">In what way?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Antigone</speaker><l n="1705a" part="F">He died on the foreign ground that he desired; he has his well-shaded bed beneath the ground for ever; and he did not leave behind unwept sorrow. With these weeping eyes, father, I lament you;</l><l n="1710">nor do I know how in my wretchedness I must still my grief for you that is so immense. Alas! You wanted to die in a foreign land, but you died without me near.</l></sp><sp><speaker>Ismene</speaker><l n="1714">Wretched me! What fate</l><l n="1715">awaits you and me, dear, orphaned as we are of our father?</l></sp><sp><speaker>Chorus</speaker><l n="1720">Cease from your grief, dear girls, since his end is blessed. No one is beyond the reach of evil.</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>