For now the ribbed sides of an urn of bronze

The ashes hide of one whom men have wept.”

So much I heard and now have told; and if

I speak to kin that have a right in him

I know not, but his father sure should know it.

Clytæm. Ah, thou hast told how utterly our ruin

Is now complete! O Curse of this our house,

Full hard to wrestle with! How many things,

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Though lying out of reach, thou aimest at,