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EURIPIDES.
Semichorus 1.
For whom was the night's first watch proclaimed?
.. . . . . . . .[1]
Semichorus 2.
For the scion of Mygdon, Korœbus named.
Semichorus 1.
Who then?
Semichorus 2.
The Paionians roused the folk 540
Of Cilicia: us the Mysians woke.
Semichorus 1.
High time is it then that we hasted to call
The Lycians; to them did the fifth watch fall,
When the lot to our stations assigned us all.
Chorus.
(Ant.)
I hear, I hear—'tis the nightingale! The mother that slew her child—[2]
As broodeth her wing o'er the fearful thing, the eternal murder-stain—
By Simoïs chanteth her heart-stricken wail ; the voice of her woe rings wild,
As passions a lute of many a string,—winged poet of hopeless pain! 550
