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Had I the tongue of Orpheus and his mellifluous strains and by song could cast a spell on Persephone and her spouse to wrest you out of hell, I shou… - Euripides
" "Had I the tongue of Orpheus and his mellifluous strains and by song could cast a spell on Persephone and her spouse to wrest you out of hell,
I should go down and neither Pluto’s hound nor the spirit-ferrying Charon at his oar could stop me: not till I’d brought your soul up into the light.
Wait for me down there. Wait for me to die.
Prepare the home where you and I shall live as one.
For I shall make them lay my bones side by side with yours: stretched out with you in the selfsame cedar box.
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About Euripides
Euripides (Greek: Εὐριπίδης; c. 480 BC–406 BC) was a Greek playwright.
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Look! Look! Her eyes … and her arms not like before,
How they lie …
Mother! Oh, speak a word!
Answer me, answer me, Mother! It is I.
I am touching your face. It is I, your little bird.
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She hears us not, she sees us not. We lie
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I am so little, Father, and lonely and cold
Here without Mother. It is too hard…. And you,
Poor little sister, too.
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Everything is spoiled when Mother is dead.
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