Rhesus

Euripides

Euripides. The Rhesus of Euripides. Translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes by Gilbert Murray. Murray, Gilbert, translator. London: George Allen and Company, Ltd., 1913.

  1. To set this one soul free. She owes me yet,
  2. For Orpheus widowed, an abiding debt.
  3. To me he still must be—that know I well—
  4. As one in death, who sees not. Where I dwell
  5. He must not come, nor see his mother’s face.
  6. Alone for ever, in a caverned place
  7. Of silver-veinèd earth, hid from men’s sight,
  8. A Man yet Spirit, he shall live in light:
  9. As under far Pangaion Orpheus lies,
  10. Priest of great light and worshipped of the wise.