| Up and lead the dance of Fate!
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| Lift the song that mortals hate!
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| Tell what rights are ours on earth
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| Over all of human birth
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| Swift of foot to avenge are we!
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| He whose hands are clean and pure
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| Naught our wrath to dread hath he;
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| Calm his cloudless days endure
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| But the man that seeks to hide
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| Like him, his gore-bedewèd hands
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| Witnesses to them that died
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| The Furies' troop forever stands
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| For light our footsteps are
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| And perfect is our might
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| Awful remembrances of guilt and crime
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| Implacable to mortal prayer
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| O’er our victim come begin!
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| Come, the incantation sing
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| Frantic all and maddening
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| To the heart a brand of fire
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| Do you hear the Furies' hymn?
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| That which claims the senses dim
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| Tuneless to the gentle lyre
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| Withering the soul within
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| Pride of all of human birth
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| Glorious in the eye of day
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| Dishonored slowly melts away
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| Trod down, trampled to the earth
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| Far from the gods, unhonored, and heaven’s light
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| We hold our voiceless dwellings dread
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| All unapproached by living or by dead
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| What mortal feels not awe
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| Nor trembles at our name
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| Hearing our fate…
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| The eternal law…
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| For old is our fame
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| Might never yet of its due honors fail
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| Though 'neath the earth our realm in unsunned regions pale |