The Greek Plays by Mary Lefkowitz

Author:Mary Lefkowitz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2016-08-22T16:00:00+00:00

strophe

CHORUS: Someone who wishes to live too long,

who spurns a moderate share

in life, clings, all too clearly,

in my view, to delusion.

For the long days pile up

many things so much like pain

you’d look and not find

where pleasure’s gone

once one has sunk too

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deeply into life. But the Deliverer

levels all endings, when Hades’ doom

shows up—no wedding song,

no music, no dance, only

Death at the end.

antistrophe

Not to be born is best, by any

measure, and next best, by far, once born,

go back where you came from

as soon as you can.

For when one has let go

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of youth’s airy thoughtlessness,

what painful blow is missing?

What misery is not at hand?

Murders, factions, strife, battles,

and envy. And then, last of all,

reviled old age is our lot—

strengthless, friendless,

loveless—where all the worst

evils make their home.

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