Children
Thy sons are dead and gone. Poor mother!
dead and gone; the boundless air now wraps them round.
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Chorus
Turned to ashes by the flame, they have winged their flight to Hades.
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Children
Father, thou hearest thy children’s lamentation; say, shall I e’er, as warrior dight, avenge thy slaughter?
Chorus
God grant it, O my child!
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The Suppliant Maidens. Euripides. E. P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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