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Chorus
Sorrow's charm drives me wild—insatiate, painful, [80] as the trickling stream that gushes from some steep rock's face, endless; for it is woman's way to mourn over [85] the cruel calamity of children dead. Oh, oh! would I could forget my anguish in death!
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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