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Section.
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CLYTEMNESTRA.
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Scene.—Before the Palace of Agamemnon in Argos. Trophies, amongst which, the shield of Agamemnon, on the wall.
Time, Morning. The action continues till Sunset.
I. CLYTEMNESTRA.
CLYTEMNESTRA.
- Morning at last! at last the lingering day
- Creeps o'er the dewy side of yon dark world.
- O dawning light already on the hills !
- O universal earth, and air, and thou,
- First freshness of the east, which art a breath
- Breath' d from the rapture of the gods, who bless
- Almost all other prayers on earth but mine !
- Wherefore to me is solacing sleep denied ?
- And honourable rest, the right of all ?
- So that no medicine of the slumbrous shell,
- Brimm'd with divinest draughts of melody,
- Nor silence under dreamful canopies,
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