Away with her;

Defile the face of heaven with murder's stain,

Defile the shades.—But why make prayer to you?1005

I'll rather pray the sea whose savage rage

Befits these bloody rites; the selfsame doom,

Which for my ship I pray and prophesy,

May that befall the thousand ships of Greece,

And so may evil fate engulf them all.


Chorus: 'Tis sweet for one in grief to know