OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
Enter Antigone and Ismene with Theseus.
Oedipus
Where, where? what sayest thou?
Antigone
O father, father,
Would that some god might grant thee eyes to see
This best of men who brings us back again.
Oedipus
My child! and are ye back indeed!
Antigone
Yes, saved
By Theseus and his gallant followers.
Oedipus
Come to your father’s arms, O let me feel
A child’s embrace I never hoped for more.
Antigone
Thou askest what is doubly sweet to give.
Oedipus
Where are ye then?
Antigone
We come together both.
Oedipus
My precious nurslings!
Antigone
Fathers aye were fond.
Oedipus
Props of my age!
Antigone
So sorrow sorrow props.
Oedipus
I have my darlings, and if death should come,
Death were not wholly bitter with you near.
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