Thou guiltless of this murder, thou!
1755
Who dares such thought avow?
Yet it may be, wroth for the parent's deed,
The fiend hath holpen thee to slay the son.
Dark Ares, god of death, is pressing on
Thro' streams of blood by kindred shed,
1760
Exacting the accompt for children dead,
For clotted blood, for flesh on which their sire did feed.
Agamemnon. Aeschylus. Edmund Doidge Anderson Morshead (Translator). . .