OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
Chorus
Oh God!
Oedipus
Sprang from the wife and mother’s travail-pain.
Chorus
What, then thy offspring are at once— (Str. 2)
Oedipus
Too true.
Their father’s very sisters too.
Chorus
Oh horror!
Oedipus
Horrors from the boundless deep
Back on my soul in refluent surges sweep.
Chorus
Thou hast endured—
Oedipus
Intolerable woe.
Chorus
And sinned—
Oedipus
I sinnèd not.
Chorus
How so?
Oedipus
I served the State; would I had never won
That graceless grace by which I was undone.
Chorus
(Ant. 2)
And next, unhappy man, thou hast shed blood?
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