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antigone-第6部分

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guest; the daughter of Tantalus; on the Sipylian heights; I how;

like clinging ivy; the growth of stone subdued her; and the rains fail

not; as men tell; from her wasting form; nor fails the snow; while

beneath her weeping lids the tears bedew her bosom; and most like to

hers is the fate that brings me to my rest。

  CHORUS



                                                            systema 2



    Yet she was a goddess; thou knowest; and born of gods; we are

mortals; and of mortal race。 But 'tis great renown for a woman who

hath perished that she should have shared the doom of the godlike;

in her life; and afterward in death。

  ANTIGONE



                                                            strophe 2



    Ah; I am mocked! In the name of our fathers' gods; can ye not wait

till I am gone;…must ye taunt me to my face; O my city; and ye; her

wealthy sons? Ah; fount of Dirce; and thou holy ground of Thebe

whose chariots are many; ye; at least; will bear me witness; in what

sort; unwept of friends; and by what laws I pass to the rock…closed

prison of my strange tomb; ah me unhappy! who have no home on the

earth or in the shades; no home with the living or with the dead。

  CHORUS



                                                            strophe 3



    Thou hast rushed forward to the utmost verge of daring; and

against that throne where justice sits on high thou hast fallen; my

daughter; with a grievous fall。 But in this ordeal thou art paying;

haply; for thy father's sin。

  ANTIGONE



                                                        antistrophe 2



    Thou hast touched on my bitterest thought;…awaking the ever…new

lament for my sire and for all the doom given to us; the famed house

of Labdacus。 Alas for the horrors of the mother's bed! alas for the

wretched mother's slumber at the side of her own son;…and my sire!

From what manner of parents did I take my miserable being! And to them

I go thus; accursed; unwed; to share their home。 Alas; my brother;

ill…starred in thy marriage; in thy death thou hast undone my life!

  CHORUS



                                                        antistrophe 3



    Reverent action claims a certain praise for reverence; but an

offence against power cannot be brooked by him who hath power in his

keeping。 Thy self…willed temper hath wrought thy ruin。

  ANTIGONE



                                                                epode



    Unwept; unfriended; without marriage…song; I am led forth in my

sorrow on this journey that can be delayed no more。 No longer; hapless

one; may I behold yon day…star's sacred eye; but for my fate no tear

is shed; no friend makes moan。

                                      (CREON enters from the palace。)

  CREON

    Know ye not that songs and wailings before death would never

cease; if it profited to utter them? Away with her…away! And when ye

have enclosed her; according to my word; in her vaulted grave; leave

her alone; forlorn…whether she wishes to die; or to live a buried life

in such a home。 Our hands are clean as touching this maiden。 But

this is certain…she shall be deprived of her sojourn in the light。

  ANTIGONE

    Tomb; bridal…chamber; eternal prison in the caverned rock; whither

go to find mine own; those many who have perished; and whom Persephone

hath received among the dead! Last of all shall I pass thither; and

far most miserably of all; before the term of my life is spent。 But

I cherish good hope that my coming will be welcome to my father; and

pleasant to thee; my mother; and welcome; brother; to thee; for;

when ye died; with mine own hands I washed and dressed you; and poured

drink…offerings at your graves; and now; Polyneices; 'tis for

tending thy corpse that I win such recompense as this。

    And yet I honoured thee; as the wise will deem; rightly。 Never;

had been a mother of children; or if a husband had been mouldering

in death; would I have taken this task upon me in the city's

despite。 What law; ye ask; is my warrant for that word? The husband

lost; another might have been found; and child from another; to

replace the first…born: but; father and mother hidden with Hades; no

brother's life could ever bloom for me again。 Such was the law whereby

I held thee first in honour; but Creon deemed me guilty of error

therein; and of outrage; ah brother mine! And now he leads me thus;

a captive in his hands; no bridal bed; no bridal song hath been

mine; no joy of marriage; no portion in the nurture of children; but

thus; forlorn of friends; unhappy one; I go living to the vaults of

death。

    And what law of heaven have I transgressed? Why; hapless one;

should I look to the gods any more;…what ally should I invoke;…when by

piety I have earned the name of impious? Nay; then; if these things

are pleasing to the gods; when I have suffered my doom; I shall come

to know my sin; but if the sin is with my judges; I could wish them no

fuller measure of evil than they; on their part; mete wrongfully to

me。

  CHORUS

    Still the same tempest of the soul vexes this maiden with the same

fierce gusts。

  CREON

    Then for this shall her guards have cause to rue their slowness。

  ANTIGONE

    Ah me! that word hath come very near to death。

  CREON

    I can cheer thee with no hope that this doom is not thus to be

fulfilled。

  ANTIGONE

    O city of my fathers in the land of Thebe! O ye gods; eldest of

our race!…they lead me hencnow; now…they tarry not! Behold me;

princes of Thebes; the last daughter of the house of your kings;…see

what I suffer; and from whom; because I feared to cast away the fear

of Heaven!

                                (ANTIGONE is led away by the guards。)

  CHORUS (singing)



                                                            strophe 1



    Even thus endured Danae in her beauty to change the light of day

for brass…bound walls; and in that chamber; secret as the grave; she

was held close prisoner; yet was she of a proud lineage; O my

daughter; and charged with the keeping of the seed of Zeus; that

fell in the golden rain。

    But dreadful is the mysterious power of fate: there is no

deliverance from it by wealth or by war; by fenced city; or dark;

sea…beaten ships。



                                                        antistrophe 1



    And bonds tamed the son of Dryas; swift to wrath; that king of the

Edonians; so paid he for his frenzied taunts; when; by the will of

Dionysus; he was pent in a rocky prison。 There the fierce exuberance

of his madness slowly passed away。 That man learned to know the god;

whom in his frenzy he had provoked with mockeries; for he had sought

to quell the god…possessed women; and the Bacchanalian fire; and he

angered the Muses that love the flute。



                                                            strophe 2



    And by the waters of the Dark Rocks; the waters of the twofold

sea; are the shores of Bosporus; and Thracian Salmydessus; where Ares;

neighbour to the city; saw the accurst; blinding wound dealt to the

two sons of Phineus by his fierce wife;…the wound that brought

darkness to those vengeance…craving orbs; smitten with her bloody

hands; smitten with her shuttle for a dagger。



                                                        antistrophe 2



    Pining in their misery; they bewailed their cruel doom; those sons

of a mother hapless in her marriage; but she traced her descent from

the ancient line of the Erechtheidae; and in far…distant caves she was

nursed amid her father's storms; that child of Boreas; swift as a

steed over the steep hills; a daughter of gods; yet upon her also

the gray Fates bore hard; my daughter。

           (Enter TEIRESIAS; led by a Boy; on the spectators' right。)

  TEIRESIAS

    Princes of Thebes; we have come with linked steps; both served

by the eyes of one; for thus; by a guide's help; the blind must walk。

  CREON

    And what; aged Teiresias; are thy tidings?

  TEIRESIAS

    I will tell thee; and do thou hearken to the seer。

  CREON

    Indeed; it has not been my wont to slight thy counsel。

  TEIRESIAS

    Therefore didst thou steer our city's course aright。

  CREON

    I have felt; and can attest; thy benefits。

  TEIRESIAS

    Mark that now; once more; thou standest on fate's fine edge。

  CREON

    What means this? How I shudder at thy message!

  TEIRESIAS

    Thou wilt learn; when thou hearest the warnings of mine art。 As

I took my place on mine old seat of augury; where all birds have

been wont to gather within my ken; I heard a strange voice among them;

they were screaming with dire; feverish rage; that drowned their

language in jargon; and I knew that they were rending each other

with their talons; murderously; the whirr of wings told no doubtful

tale。

    Forthwith; in fear; I essayed burnt…sacrifice on a duly kindled

altar:
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