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This is the goddess that hath gripped thee too in chains thou canst not ’scape;
yet steel thy heart, for all thy weeping ne’er will bring to light again the dead from the realms below. Even sons of gods perish in darkness
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in the hour of death. We loved her while she was with us, we love her still though dead; noblest of her sex was she, the wife thou tookest to thy bed.
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This is the goddess that hath gripped thee too in chains thou canst not ’scape;
yet steel thy heart, for all thy weeping ne’er will bring to light again the dead from the realms below. Even sons of gods perish in darkness
1
985
in the hour of death. We loved her while she was with us, we love her still though dead; noblest of her sex was she, the wife thou tookest to thy bed.
990
Alcestis. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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