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Children
The weight of grief I have to bear has crushed me utterly. Chorus
[1160] Come, let me clasp the dear ashes to my bosom. Children
I weep to hear that most hateful word; it stabs me to the heart. Chorus
My child, you are gone; no more shall I behold you, your own fond mother's treasure.
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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