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Whom will he stab a-sleeping, whom,
The quick grey wolf, the crawling doom?
255
1
Grant that he slay the Spartan! Nay,
Or Agamemnon’s head and plume
2
To Helen bear at dawn of day!
260
A lightsome dawn to hear her wail
Her brother sworn, her King who came
To
Ilion
with his thousand sail,
And swords, and flame!
As the song ends DOLON reappears, in the disguise of a wolf. The Guards gather round him, bidding him godspeed as he crawls off in the dark towards the Greek camp. Meantime from the direction of
Mount Ida
has entered a SHEPHERD who goes to HECTOR’S door and calls. The Guards seeing him return to their places.
Whom will he stab a-sleeping, whom,
The quick grey wolf, the crawling doom?
255
Grant that he slay the Spartan! Nay,
Or Agamemnon’s head and plume
To Helen bear at dawn of day!
260
A lightsome dawn to hear her wail
Her brother sworn, her King who came
To
Ilion
with his thousand sail,
And swords, and flame!
As the song ends DOLON reappears, in the disguise of a wolf. The Guards gather round him, bidding him godspeed as he crawls off in the dark towards the Greek camp. Meantime from the direction of
Mount Ida
has entered a SHEPHERD who goes to HECTOR’S door and calls. The Guards seeing him return to their places.
Rhesus. Euripides. Gilbert Murray (Translator). London. 1913.
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