Your strength and ours will soon come to the test.CreonStand back!ChorusNot while this is your purpose.CreonThere will be war with Thebes for you, if you harm me.OedipusDid I not say so?ChorusUnhand the girl at once!CreonDo not make commands where you are not the master.ChorusLet go, I tell you!CreonTo his guards, who seize Antigone.And I tell you: be off!ChorusHelp, men of Colonus, bring help! The city, our city, is attacked by force! Come to our aid!AntigoneI am being dragged away in misery. Strangers, strangers!OedipusMy child, where are you?AntigoneI am led off by force.OedipusGive me your hand, my child!AntigoneI am helpless.CreonAway with you!OedipusI am wretched, wretched!The guards exit with Antigone. CreonSo those two staffs will never again support your path.But since you wish to overcome your country and your friends, whose will I, though tyrant as well, am here discharging, then I wish you victory. For in time, I am sure, you will come to recognize all this, that now too as in time past, it is you who have done yourself no good, by indulging your anger despite your friends.This has always been your ruin.