Leader:
Zeus, you say,
sets more store by a father’s death? He shackled
his own father, Kronos proud with age.
Doesn’t that contradict you? 650
(to the judges.)
Mark it well. I call you all to witness.
Apollo:
You grotesque, loathsome – the gods detest you!
Zeus can break chains, we’ve cures for that,
countless ingenious ways to set us free.
But once the dust drinks down a man’s blood, 655
he is gone, once for all. No rising back,
no spell sung over the grave can sing him back -
not even Father can. Though all things else
he can overturn and never strain for breath.
Leader:
So
you’d force this man’s acquittal? Behold Justice! 660
(exhibiting Apollo and Orestes.)
Zeus, you say,
sets more store by a father’s death? He shackled
his own father, Kronos proud with age.
Doesn’t that contradict you? 650
(to the judges.)
Mark it well. I call you all to witness.
Apollo:
You grotesque, loathsome – the gods detest you!
Zeus can break chains, we’ve cures for that,
countless ingenious ways to set us free.
But once the dust drinks down a man’s blood, 655
he is gone, once for all. No rising back,
no spell sung over the grave can sing him back -
not even Father can. Though all things else
he can overturn and never strain for breath.
Leader:
So
you’d force this man’s acquittal? Behold Justice! 660
(exhibiting Apollo and Orestes.)
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