Careful! There is war in women too, as you know by experience, I think.
You drive me back down my desperation – that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life.
My destiny, my dark power, what a leap you made!
To the depths of terror, too dark to hear, to see.
Not long now: the blazing dream of my head is crawling out.
Here he comes like a stealing shadow, like a footprint of death into the rooms, stalking the past with freshcut blood in his hands.
And also because – Oh, my darling, my darling, forgive me; I’m going to cause you quite a lot of pain.
The future rests with the ones who tend the future.
What you think later makes you wrong before.
Harsh ways are taught by harshness.
Oft we know not till we see. Weak is human prophecy. Judge not, till the hour have taught thee What the destinies have brought thee.
And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death.
Like a star his envied fortune mounted beaming far and wide: Now he sinks in seas of anguish, whelmed beneath a raging tide.
Ath. I will confound his sense although he see.
For now I feel All we who live are but an empty show And idle pageant of a shadowy dream.
And with loudly waxing mirth Heaping insult on thy grief, Each who hears it glories more Than the tongue that told before.
Every slander wins belief Aimed at souls whose worth is chief:.
KLYTEMNESTRA Go ahead. Permission granted. If you always spoke in a tone this calm, it wouldn’t be so painful.
Shame on the wight who when beset with ill Cares to live on in misery unrelieved.
Say, can the mind be noble, where the stream Of gratitude is withered from the spring?