Oresteia - Chorus (7)

[Adolphe Bouguereau: "The Remorse of Orestes" (1862)]

Cassandra:

The labour pains
of prophecy
possess me

once again
See those creatures
squatting on

the house?
Dark shapes
like children

murdered
by their parents
trading bites

of their own
flesh
the tainted meal

your father tasted
Revenge
is on its way

They’re after you

[Aeschylus, Agamemnon: ll.1215-25].

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