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CHORUS
FROM THE ŒDIPUS COLONEUS.

(668-718.)

Εὐίππου, ξένε, τᾶσδε χώραςἽκου τὰ κράτιστα γᾶς ἔπαυλα, κ.τ.λ.
Thou hast found the fairest seatOf this bright and broad domain,Where the noblest coursers' feetTread the Colonean plain.Here the melodious nightingaleLoves to tell her plaintive tale,Where the thickest copses bloom,Hid beneath the ivy's gloom,Or 'neath that sacred foliage veil'd,Where thousand blossoms spring,In vain by fiercest noon assail'd,Unswept by the tempest's wing.For Bacchus loves these chosen groves,Where oft his feet have trod;While mid the bands of Nymphs he roves,That nursed the Infant God.
Here, wet with dews that freshly fall,Narcissus clusters wild,For thee the ancient coronal,Great Ceres, and thy child.
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