Antistrophe VIII

Chor. From what source hast thou these dread agonies

Sent on thee by thy God,

Yet vague and little meaning; and thy cries

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Dire with ill-omened shrieks

Dost utter as a chant,

And blendest with them strains of shrillest grief?

Whence treadest thou this track

Of evil-boding path of prophecy?