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Mourn'd by a sister's lonely-wailing strain.

Who may to this agree?

Let the city strike with doom,

Or not, who Polyneikes mourn;

We will go and to the tomb

Him escort,—a train forlorn;

For this woe is common dower,

And the claims of right

In our townsmen's sight

Vary with the hour.

But this other follow we,

As the city doth approve

And Justice;—for in sooth 'twas he,

After those who reign above,

And might of Zeus,—Cadmeia's realm

Who in chief did save

From the alien wave

Which threatened to o'erwhelm.

[Exeunt in solemn procession. and Semi-chorus I. follow the corpse of ; ''and Semi-chorus II. that of'' .]