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CHORUS
A lonelydweller in a lonely home art thou.
PELEUS
I have no city any longer; there! on the ground my sceptre do
cast; and thou, daughter of Nereus, 'neath thy dim grotto, shalt see
me grovelling in the dust, a ruined king.
CHORUS
Look, look! (A dim form of divine appearance is seen hovering
mid air.) What is that moving? what influence divine am I conscious
of? Look, maidens, mark it well; see, yonder is some deity, wafted
through the lustrous air and alighting on the plains of Phthia, home
of steeds.
THETIS (from above)
O Peleus! because of my wedded days with thee now long agone, I
Thetis am come from the halls of Nereus. And first I counsel thee
not to grieve to excess in thy present distress, for I too who need
ne'er have borne children to my sorrow, have lost the child of our
love, Achilles swift of foot, foremost of the sons of Hellas. Next
will I declare why I am come, and do thou give ear. Carry yonder
corpse, Achilles' son, to the Pythian altar and there bury it, a
reproach to Delphi, that his tomb may proclaim the violent death he
met at the hand of Orestes. And for his captive wife Andromache,-she
must dwell in the Molossian land, united in honourable wedlock with
Helenus, and with her this babe, the sole survivor as he is of all the
line of Aeacus, for from him a succession of prosperous kings of
Molossia is to go on unbroken; for the race that springs from thee and
me, my aged lord, must not thus be brought to naught; no! nor Troy's
line either; for her fate too is cared for by the gods, albeit her
fall was due to the eager wish of Pallas. Thee too, that thou mayst
know the saving grace of wedding me, will I, a goddess born and
daughter of a god, release from all the ills that flesh is heir to and
make a deity to know not death nor decay. From henceforth in the halls
of Nereus shalt thou dwell with me, god and goddess together; thence
shalt thou rise dry-shod from out the main and see Achilles, our
dear son, settled in his island-home by the strand of Leuce, that is
girdled by the Euxine sea. But get thee to Delphi's god-built town,
carrying this corpse with thee, and, after thou hast buried him,
return and settle in the cave which time hath hollowed in the Sepian
rock and there abide, till from the sea I come with choir of fifty
Nereids to be thy escortthence; for fate's decree thou must fulfil;
such is the pleasure of Zeus. Cease then to mourn the dead; this is
the lot which heaven assigns to all, and all must pay their debt to
death.
PELEUS
Great queen, my honoured wife, from Nereus sprung, all hail!
thou art actingherein as befits thyself and thy children. So I will
stay my grief at thy bidding, goddess, and, when I have buried the
dead, will seek the glens of Pelion, even the place where I took thy
beauteous form to my embrace. Surely after this every prudent man will
seek to marry a wife of noble stock and give his daughter to a husband
good and true, never setting his heart on a worthless woman, not
even though she bring a sumptuous dowry to his house. So would men
ne'er suffer ill at heaven's hand.
(THETIS vanishes.)
CHORUS (chanting)
Many are the shapes of Heaven's denizens, and many a thing they
bring to pass contrary to our expectation; that which we thought would
be is not accomplished, while for the unexpected God finds out a
way. E'en such hath been the issue of this matter.
-THE END-
.
A lonelydweller in a lonely home art thou.
PELEUS
I have no city any longer; there! on the ground my sceptre do
cast; and thou, daughter of Nereus, 'neath thy dim grotto, shalt see
me grovelling in the dust, a ruined king.
CHORUS
Look, look! (A dim form of divine appearance is seen hovering
mid air.) What is that moving? what influence divine am I conscious
of? Look, maidens, mark it well; see, yonder is some deity, wafted
through the lustrous air and alighting on the plains of Phthia, home
of steeds.
THETIS (from above)
O Peleus! because of my wedded days with thee now long agone, I
Thetis am come from the halls of Nereus. And first I counsel thee
not to grieve to excess in thy present distress, for I too who need
ne'er have borne children to my sorrow, have lost the child of our
love, Achilles swift of foot, foremost of the sons of Hellas. Next
will I declare why I am come, and do thou give ear. Carry yonder
corpse, Achilles' son, to the Pythian altar and there bury it, a
reproach to Delphi, that his tomb may proclaim the violent death he
met at the hand of Orestes. And for his captive wife Andromache,-she
must dwell in the Molossian land, united in honourable wedlock with
Helenus, and with her this babe, the sole survivor as he is of all the
line of Aeacus, for from him a succession of prosperous kings of
Molossia is to go on unbroken; for the race that springs from thee and
me, my aged lord, must not thus be brought to naught; no! nor Troy's
line either; for her fate too is cared for by the gods, albeit her
fall was due to the eager wish of Pallas. Thee too, that thou mayst
know the saving grace of wedding me, will I, a goddess born and
daughter of a god, release from all the ills that flesh is heir to and
make a deity to know not death nor decay. From henceforth in the halls
of Nereus shalt thou dwell with me, god and goddess together; thence
shalt thou rise dry-shod from out the main and see Achilles, our
dear son, settled in his island-home by the strand of Leuce, that is
girdled by the Euxine sea. But get thee to Delphi's god-built town,
carrying this corpse with thee, and, after thou hast buried him,
return and settle in the cave which time hath hollowed in the Sepian
rock and there abide, till from the sea I come with choir of fifty
Nereids to be thy escortthence; for fate's decree thou must fulfil;
such is the pleasure of Zeus. Cease then to mourn the dead; this is
the lot which heaven assigns to all, and all must pay their debt to
death.
PELEUS
Great queen, my honoured wife, from Nereus sprung, all hail!
thou art actingherein as befits thyself and thy children. So I will
stay my grief at thy bidding, goddess, and, when I have buried the
dead, will seek the glens of Pelion, even the place where I took thy
beauteous form to my embrace. Surely after this every prudent man will
seek to marry a wife of noble stock and give his daughter to a husband
good and true, never setting his heart on a worthless woman, not
even though she bring a sumptuous dowry to his house. So would men
ne'er suffer ill at heaven's hand.
(THETIS vanishes.)
CHORUS (chanting)
Many are the shapes of Heaven's denizens, and many a thing they
bring to pass contrary to our expectation; that which we thought would
be is not accomplished, while for the unexpected God finds out a
way. E'en such hath been the issue of this matter.
-THE END-
.
- lonely [´ləunli]
a.孤独的；无人烟的 (初中英语单词) - divine [di´vain] a.神圣的 v.预言 (初中英语单词)
- counsel [´kaunsəl] n.商议；劝告；律师 (初中英语单词)
- grieve [gri:v] v.&n.(使)悲痛；哀悼 (初中英语单词)
- excess [´ekses] n.超过 a.过分的 (初中英语单词)
- distress [di´stres] n.痛苦 vt.使苦恼 (初中英语单词)
- proclaim [prə´kleim] vt.宣布；公布；声明 (初中英语单词)
- violent [´vaiələnt] a.强暴的；猛烈的 (初中英语单词)
- captive [´kæptiv] n.俘虏；捕获物 (初中英语单词)
- honourable [´ɔnərəbəl] a.荣誉的；正直的 (初中英语单词)
- succession [sək´seʃən] n.继任；继承(权) (初中英语单词)
- prosperous [´prɔspərəs] a.繁荣的；顺利的 (初中英语单词)
- wedding [´wediŋ] n.婚礼，结婚 (初中英语单词)
- goddess [´gɔdis] n.女神 (初中英语单词)
- release [ri´li:s] vt&n.释放；放松；赦免 (初中英语单词)
- henceforth [´hens´fɔ:θ] ad.今后；从今以后 (初中英语单词)
- thence [ðens] ad.从那里；因此 (初中英语单词)
- decree [di´kri:] n.法令；公告；天命 (初中英语单词)
- acting [´æktiŋ] a.代理的 n.演戏 (初中英语单词)
- embrace [im´breis] vt.&n.拥抱；采纳；信奉 (初中英语单词)
- contrary [´kɔntrəri] a.相反的 n.相反 (初中英语单词)
- foremost [´fɔ:məust] a.最重要的；最先的 (高中英语单词)
- naught [nɔ:t] n.无；零 (高中英语单词)
- escort [´eskɔ:t] n.伴随者；警卫(队) (高中英语单词)
- sprung [sprʌŋ] spring的过去分词 (高中英语单词)
- prudent [´pru:dənt] a.谨慎的；精明的 (高中英语单词)
- worthless [´wə:θləs] a.无价值的 (高中英语单词)
- expectation [,ekspek´teiʃən] n.期待(望)；预期 (高中英语单词)
- unexpected [ʌniks´pektid] a.突然的；意外的 (高中英语单词)
- dweller [´dwelə] n.居住者；居民 (英语四级单词)
- wedded [´wedid] a.(已)结婚的；献身的 (英语四级单词)
- unbroken [ʌn´brəukən] a.未破的；不间断的 (英语四级单词)
- corpse [kɔ:ps] n.尸体 (英语四级单词)
- setting [´setiŋ] n.安装；排字；布景 (英语四级单词)
- accomplished [ə´kʌmpliʃt] a.完成了的；熟练的 (英语四级单词)
- grotto [´grɔtəu] n.岩穴；洞室 (英语六级单词)
- survivor [sə´vaivə] n.未死的人；残存者 (英语六级单词)
- albeit [ɔ:l´bi:it] conj.即使；纵使；虽然 (英语六级单词)
- herein [,hiər´in] ad.在此，鉴于 (英语六级单词)
- sumptuous [´sʌmptʃuəs] a.奢侈的；豪华的 (英语六级单词)
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