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1876–1944

MEGAERA

Helen Hay Whitney

Always to suffer so, to want and weep With woe that groweth every day more deep; To don the green robe of tormented scorn, And ever curse the hour that love was born!

Furies, my Sisters! have you no surcease For me to whom no death shall bring release? They name me Jealous One. They hate my name, The ages hold me high to endless shame;

How, if I suffer so, does no one care And pity, for the wrath that I must bear? Gods! let me go, your service wrecks and sears, The vase must break that holds so many tears.

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