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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PHRYGES: JUSTICE PROTECTS THE KING, by AESCHYLUS Poet's Biography
First Line: If you would do a kinness to the dead
Last Line: And justice wreaks their vengeance for the dead.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
First Line: If you would do a kinness to the dead
Last Line: And justice wreaks their vengeance for the dead.
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The
IF you would do a kindness to the dead,
Or do an ill, it matters not that men
Are neither pleased nor grieved at what you do.
Yet Nemesis is mightier than we,
And Justice wreaks their vengeance for the dead.
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