Note 55 — Chapter XV · THE FRAGMENTS OF ÆSCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, AND EURIPIDES.

Think'st thou that Death will heed thy tears at all, Or send thy son back if thou wilt but groan? Nay, cease; and, gazing at thy neighbor's grief, Grow calm: if thou wilt take the pains to reckon How many have toiled out their lives in bonds, How many wear to old age, robbed of children, And all who from the tyrant's height of glory Have sunk to nothing. These things shouldst thou heed.