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Dance of the Maidens of Dionysus

From The Bacchae

CHORUS

Some Maidens

 

  Will they ever come to me, ever again,
         The long long dances,
  On through the dark till the dim stars wane?
  Shall I feel the dew on my throat, and the stream
  Of wind in my hair?  Shall our white feet gleam
         In the dim expanses?
  Oh, feet of a fawn to the greenwood fled,
         Alone in the grass and the loveliness;
  Leap to the hunted, no more in dread,
         Beyond the snares and the deadly press:
  Yet a voice still in the distance sounds,
  A voice and a fear and a haste of hounds;
  O wildly labouring, fiercely fleet,
         Onward yet by river and glen...
  Is it joy or terror, ye storm-swift feet?...
         To the dear lone lands untroubled of men,
Where no voice sounds, and amid the shadowy green
The little things of the woodland live unseen.
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