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THE TROJAN WOMEN
When once the town is level with the ground, then off for home and glad good-by to Troy.
{To women) And you, {fading in) you women . . . I will arrange for you as well, one speech for ever3ffhing. . . . Whenever a loud trumpet call is sounded, go to the Greek ships, to embark.
Old woman, I am sorriest for you.
Follow. Odysseus’ men are here to get you.
He drew you. ... You must leave here as his slave.
Hecuba. — The end, then. Well . . . the height of sorrow, I stand there.
Troy is burning. ... I am going.
But . . . hurry, old feet, if you can, a little nearer, here, where I can see my poor town, say good-by to her.
You were so proud a city, in all the East the proudest. Soon your name the whole world knew will be taken from you. They are burning you and carrying us away, their slaves.
Talthybius. — Lead her away. Hold her; don’t be too gentle. She must be taken to Odysseus.
Give her into his hands. She is his . . . his prize.
Woman 5. — Oh, terrible!
The fire lights the whole town up.
The inside rooms are burning.
The citadel ... it is all flame now.
Woman 3. — Troy is vanishing. . . .
War first ruined her.
And what was left is rushing up in smoke, the glorious houses fallen.
First the spear and then the fire.
{Fade in wind)
Hecuba. — O dwellings of the gods and O dear city, the spear came first, and now only the red flame lives there.
Woman 2. — The dust is rising, spreading out like a great wing of smoke.
I cannot see my house.
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