Alcestis
I see the two-oared skiff, I see it; and Charon, death’s ferryman, his hand upon the boatman’s pole,
is calling me e’en now,
Why lingerest thou? Hasten. Thou art keeping me. Thus in his eager haste he hurries me.
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Alcestis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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