This page has been validated.
THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES
157
Herald
I charge thee, not to flout the city's law!
Antigone
I charge thee, use no useless heralding!
Herald
Stern is a people newly 'scaped from death.
Antigone
Whet thou their sternness! burial he shall have.
Herald
How? grace of burial, to the city's foe?
Antigone
God hath not judged him separate in guilt.
Herald
True—till he put this land in jeopardy.
Antigone
His rights usurped, he answered wrong with wrong.
Herald
Nay—but for one man's sin he smote the State.
Antigone
Contention doth out-talk all other gods!
Prate thou no more—I will to bury him.
