Chorus
His mother had no heart to plunge into the darkness of the tomb for her son, no! nor his aged sire.
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Their own child they had not the courage to rescue,
the wretches! albeit they were grey-headed. But thou in thy youth and beauty hast died for thy lord and gone thy way. O be it mine to have for partner such a loving wife! for this lot is rare in life. Surely she should be my help-meet all my life
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and never cause one tear.
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Alcestis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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