GetPassage urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg005.perseus-eng4:1356-1363 urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg005.perseus-eng4:1356-1363

For we waste time; while they, — this waiting’s gloryTreading to ground, — allow the hand no slumber.CHOROS 6.I know not — chancing on some plan — to tell it:’T is for the doer to plan of the deed also.CHOROS 7.And I am such another: since I’m schemelessHow to raise up again by words — a dead man!CHOROS 8.What, and, protracting life, shall we give way thusTo the disgracers of our home, these rulers?