Chor. Lo! still reproach upon reproach doth come;

Hard are these things to judge:

The spoiler still is spoiled,

The slayer pays his debt;

Yea, while Zeus liveth through the ages, this

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Lives also, that the doer dree his weird;

For this is law fast fixed.

Who now can drive from out the kingly house

The brood of curses dark?