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640for you the sound of the sweet-voiced flute
will soon arise, and not with a cry
of grating agony, but
with the lyrical tones of sacred song!
For the child of Alcména, Zeus's son,
is speeding his way toward home, and bringing
trophies of might and valor.
The Women of Trachis and Philoctetes. A new translation in verse by Robert Torrance. Houghton Mifflin. 1966.
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