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Children
I am bringing, I an bringing, poor mother, my father's bones from the fire, [1125] a burden grief has rendered heavy, though this tiny urn contains my all. Chorus
Oh! Oh! Why bear your tearful load to the fond mother of the dead? [1130] A handful of ashes in the place of those who once were men of mark in Mycenae?
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. The Suppliants, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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