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" And now at least I say it, and I will accomplish too ! " seo
" Then, for such promise of accomplishment, Take from my hand these children ! "
" Thus I take — Dear gift from the dear hand ! "
" Do thou become Mother, now, to these children in my place ! "
" Great, the necessity I should be so, ses
At least, to these bereaved of thee ! "
" Child — child ! Just when 1 needed most to live, below Am I departing from you both ! "
" Ah me ! And what shall I do, then, left lonely thus ? "
" Time will appease thee : who is dead is naught." 570
" Take me with thee — take, by the Gods below ! "
" We are sufficient, we who die for thee."
" Ο Powers, ye widow me of what a wife ! "
" And truly the dimmed eye draws earthward now ! "
" Wife, if thou leav'st me, I am lost indeed ! " 575
" She once was — now is nothing, thou mayst say."
" Raise thy face, nor forsake thy children thus ! "
" Ah, willingly indeed I leave them not ! But — fare ye well, my children ! "
" Look on them — Look ! "
" I am nothingness."
" What dost thou ? Leav'st . . ," " Farewell ! "
