Sweetly and forgetfully
The dim years fall from off me!
Here, therefore, we find an important episode deliberately introduced into the play.
Take another instance which Verrall does not mention. In the very enthusiastic “Introductory Essay,” Professor Murray tells us that Euripides longed to escape from the bad, hard, irreligious Athenians[69] of that day, and proceeds as follows:
“What else is wisdom?” he asks, in a marvellous passage:—
What else is wisdom? What of man’s endeavour
Or God’s high grace so lovely and so great?
To stand from fear set free, to breathe and wait;
To hold a hand uplifted over Hate;
And shall not loveliness be loved for ever?