The Journal Wk. 40

The Oresteia: Agamemnon

Agamemnon, 1-40

A watchman sees the beacons signaling Troy’s defeat

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Ten years later light

Brings with it the promise of darkness

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For where the house has faltered like a ship

In unclaimed waters, wavered like the scales

That cannot tell their balance –

There comes one

Whose hand once knew each current and its echo;

There comes one

Whose coming is a light unto itself

To those who watch, and those that sleep

Observe he casts a shadow ever growing,

A shadow of his own and others’ making.