Issue 30: David Brazil

oedipus at colonus, lines 84 to 110

o.mistresses.fierce.eyed.whenever.now.kneeling

first.upon.this.earth.of.yours.i.bent.down

to.phoebus.and.me.do.not.become.unknowing

who.to.me.when.he.augured.those.many.evils

spoke.of.this.pausing.spot.in.the.fullness.of.time

coming.to.a.terminal.space.where.deities

solemn.the.seat.i'd.receive.and.place.for.strangers

there.to.end.the.race.of.this.miserable.life

profit.first.having.settled.to.the.receivers

ruin.though.to.the.senders.which.drove.me.away

but.a.sign.of.this.to.come.be.entrusted.me

whether.earthquake.or.thunder.or.lightning.from.god

but.now.i.recognize.as.mine.this.the.highway

not.is.at.all.unfaithful.from.your.augury

i've.been.led.to.this.grove.for.not.at.any.time

at.first.on.you.i'd.have.stumbled.walking.the.roads

sober.to.wineless.and.on.solemn.sat.myself

foundation.this.unadzed.but.to.me.goddesses

of.life.by.the.word.of.apollo.give.thou.me

a.passage.already.and.some.catastrophe

unless.i.appear.somehow.of.less.worth.always

to.hardships.a.bondsman.the.greatest.of.mortals

come.now.o.sweet.children.of.archaic.darkness

come.now.o.you.greatest.of.pallas.being.called

of.all.athens.the.most.highly.valued.city

pity.you.of.the.man.oedipus.this.struggling.

eidolon.not.for.indeed.this.archaic.frame

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