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Children
You are childless, childless! And I, bereft of my hapless father, a wretched orphan shall inherit a desolate house, torn from my father's arms. Chorus
Oh! Oh! [1135] Where is now the toil I spent upon my sons? what thanks for giving birth? Where the mother's nursing care? the sleepless vigils my eyes have kept? the loving kiss upon my children's brow?
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. The Suppliants, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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