Oedipus Monologue from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

From Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

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Not murdered?... How? Some passing of disease? (STRANGER: A slight thing turns an old life to its peace.) Poor father!... 'Tis by sickness he is dead? (STRANGER: The growing years lay heavy on his head.) O wife, why then should man fear any more The voice of Pytho's dome, or cower before These birds that shriek above us? They foretold Me for my father's murderer; and behold, He lies in Corinth dead, and here am I And never touched the sword.... Or did he die In grief for me who left him? In that way I may have wrought his death.... But come what may, He sleepeth in his grave and with him all This deadly seercraft, of no worth at all.

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