Thee, rejected by thy country,
Thee no voice of wailing nears,
All thy funeral march a sister
Weeping solitary tears?
[The Chorus now divides itself into two parts, of which one attaches itself to Antigone and the corpse of Polynices; the other to Ismene and the corpse of Eteocles.
Semi-Chorus.
Let them threaten, or not threaten,
We will drop the friendly tear,
With the pious-minded sister,
We will tend the brother’s bier.