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THE PERSIANS
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Chorus
By handfuls, yea, by handfuls, with tears of dole besmeared!
Xerxes
Now let thine eyes find overflow—
Chorus
I wend in wail and pain!
Xerxes
Cry out for me an answering moan—
Chorus
Alas, alas again!
Xerxes
Shriek with a cry of agony, and lead the doleful train!
Chorus
Alas, alas, the Persian land is woeful now to tread!
Xerxes
Cry out and mourn! the city now doth wail above the dead!
Chorus
I sob and moan!
Xerxes
I bid ye now be delicate in grief!
