Ah me!
1455
Law-breaking Helena who, one,
Hast many, so many souls undone
’Neath Troia! and now the consummated
Much-memorable curse
Hast thou made flower-forth, red
With the blood no rains disperse,
1460
That which was then in the House —
Strife all-subduing, the woe of a spouse.
Agamemnon. Aeschylus. London. 1889.
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