[_At this moment a woman's wail is heard within._]
Orestes wonders if it may be his own Electra and would stop, the
Attendant hurries him away to do the God's behest. {85}
_Exeunt Orestes and Pylades on left to Tomb of Agamemnon; Attendant
back through the Distance side-door. Enter from Palace Electra moaning
and weeping._
MONODY
_Electra in Lyric Monody_. The light, the air, the loathed house and
bed she sleeps on, all are witnesses of her ceaseless misery and woe,
orphaned as she is of a father foully slain. She calls on the Curses,
the Furies and other dread Powers who watch over evil slaughter to send
Orestes, she can no longer bear up with sorrow's great burden cast into
the balance. {120}
_Enter by the Orchestral door Chorus of Argive Maidens to condole with
Electra._
LYRIC CONCERTO (FOR PARODE)
_Cho._ Why mourn for ever the guileful slaughter of thy Father,
accursed deed?--_Electra._ I know your kind and tender friendship, yet
will never be dissuaded.--_Cho._ Yet what groans and prayers can raise
thy sire from the doomed pool of Hades? you go from woes bearable to
woes beyond bearing.
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