Her banner flaunteth.

[Antigone and Ismene now come forward, and standing beside the dead bodies, pointing now to the one, and now to the other, finish the Wail as chief mourners.

PRELUDE.
Antigone.

Wounded, thou didst wound again.

Ismene.

Thou didst slay, and yet wert slain.

Antigone.

Thou didst pierce him with the spear.

Ismene.

Deadly-pierced thou liest here.