Who shall do
judgment
on me, when she dies?
Euripides - Electra
Strike her as she struck
Our father!
ORESTES (_to himself, brooding_).
Phoebus, God, was all thy mind
Turned unto darkness?
ELECTRA.
If thy God be blind,
Shalt thou have light?
ORESTES (_as before_).
Thou, thou, didst bid me kill
My mother: which is sin.
ELECTRA.
How brings it ill
To thee, to raise our father from the dust?
ORESTES.
I was a clean man once. Shall I be thrust
From men's sight, blotted with her blood?
ELECTRA.
Thy blot
Is black as death if him thou succour not!
ORESTES.
Who shall do judgment on me, when she dies?
ELECTRA.
Who shall do judgment, if thy father lies.
Forgotten?
ORESTES (_turning suddenly to_ ELECTRA).
Stay! How if some fiend of Hell,
Hid in God's likeness, spake that oracle?
ELECTRA.
In God's own house? I trow not.
ORESTES.
And I trow
It was an evil charge! [_He moves away from her. _
ELECTRA (_almost despairing_).
To fail me now!
To fail me now!
