The Tragedies of Seneca / Translated into English Verse, to Which Have Been Appended Comparative Analyses of the Corresponding Greek and Roman Plays, and a Mythological Index

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Is free from care.

To Lethe and the Stygian shore1550

Now art thou going, whence no keel

Will ever bring thee back. Thou goest,

Lamented one, unto the shades,

Whence, death o'ercome, thou once return'dst

In triumph with thy prize; but now,

An empty shade, with fleshless arms,

Wan face, and slender, drooping neck,1555

Thou goest back. Nor will the skiff