First Half-Chorus
Come, who will be the first and who the next to him upon the list to grip the handle of the brand,
and, thrusting it into the Cyclops’ eye, gouge out the light thereof?
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Second Half-Chorus
Hush! hush! Behold the drunkard leaves his rocky home, trolling loud some hideous lay,
a clumsy tuneless clown, whom tears await. Come, let us give this boor a lesson in revelry. Ere long will he be blind at any rate.
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Cyclops. Euripides. London. 1891.
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