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" Chorus:

Steadfast Antigone,
Never before did Death
Open his stone door
To one so radiant.
You would not live a lie.
Vindicated, lauded,
Age and disease outwitted,
YOu go with head held high. "

Seamus Heaney , The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone


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Seamus Heaney quote : Chorus:<br /><br />Steadfast Antigone,<br />Never before did Death<br />Open his stone door<br />To one so radiant.<br />You would not live a lie.<br />Vindicated, lauded,<br />Age and disease outwitted,<br />YOu go with head held high.