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Enter Antigone under guard from the palace.

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[801] But now, witnessing this, I too am carried beyond the bounds of loyalty. The power fails me to keep back my streaming tears any longer, when I see Antigone making her way to the chamber where all are laid to rest, [805] now her bridal chamber.

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