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THE PERSIANS
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Chorus
Say, hath aught survived and 'scaped the fray?
Xerxes
A store for darts it was, erewhile!
Chorus
Remain but two or three!
Xerxes
No aid is left!
Chorus
Ionian folk such darts, unfearing, see!
Xerxes
Right resolute they are! I saw disaster unforeseen.
Chorus
Ah, speakest thou of wreck, of flight, of carnage that hath been?
Xerxes
Yea, and my royal robe I rent, in terror at their fall!
Chorus
Alas, alas!
Xerxes
Yea, thrice alas!
Chorus
For all have perished, all!
