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Oedipus at Colonus (1726-1754)

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For what?
Antigone
To see the netherworld home.
Ismene.
Of whom?
Antigone
Wretched me! Of our father.
Ismene.
And how can this be right?
Surely you understand?
Antigone
Why this rebuke?
Ismene.
And surely you know this, too
Antigone
What more would you tell me?
Ismene
That he perished without a tomb, apart from everyone.
Antigone
Lead me there, and then kill me, too.
Ismene
Unhappy me! Abandoned and helpless,
where am I now to live my wretched life?
1737
Chorus
Dear girls, do not be afraid.
Antigone
But where shall I flee?
Chorus
Already a refuge has been found
Oedipus
What do you mean?
Chorus
That no harm befall you.
Antigone
I feel
Chorus
What do you think?
Antigone
How we are to go home, I cannot tell.
Chorus
Do not seek to go.
Antigone
Trouble surrounds us.
Chorus
And previously it bore heavily.
Antigone
Then it was desperate, but now even crueler.
Chorus
Vast, then, is the sea of your troubles.
Antigone
Alas, alas! Zeus, where shall we turn?
To what last hope does the divinity now drive us?
1751
Enter Theseus.
Theseus
Cease your lament, children! Where the favor of the nether night is stored up, there is no room for sorrow; divine retribution would follow.
Antigone
Son of Aegeus, we supplicate you!

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