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delos-617	Svarlien, Diane Arnson	Three Songs from Euripedes' "Helen"	2018	13	.pdf	application/pdf	2758	128	82	1540 Take the oars up in your hands O sailors, sailors, send Helen home, to reach the pleasant harbor, Arnson Svarlien 11 the shores she left long ago, the city that Perseus founded.” 1545 [Strophe 1] Amid the trees’ deep tresses you trill your songs; I call to you now, in your green concert hall, bird of sorrow, O nightingale, loveliest singer, bard of lonely tears: 1180 come take your place here by my side; as the melody melts in your golden throat, sing with me—we will both lament the struggles and woes of Helen, and the tearful fate of Troy’s women 1185 when their city fell beneath Achaean spears, thanks to the rover who dipped his barbarian oar in the rushing gray waves, and came bringing woe to the sons of Priam— bringing you, Helen, 1190 his bride from Lacedaemon Paris, whose marriage was poison, escorted by Aphrodite.	cache/delos-617.pdf	txt/delos-617.txt