Through the long leagues of fiery blue, With saving; not to souls unshriven; But whoso in his life hath striven To love things holy and be true, Through toil and storm we guard him; we Save, and he shall not die!--Therefore, O praise the lying man no more, Nor with oath-breakers sail the sea: Farewell, ye walkers on the shore Of death! A God hath counselled ye. [CASTOR _and_ POLYDEUCES _disappear_. CHORUS. Farewell, farewell!--But he who can so fare, And stumbleth not on mischief anywhere, Blessed on earth is he! NOTES TO THE ELECTRA The chief characters in the play belong to one family, as is shown by the two genealogies:-- I. TANTALUS | Pelops __________|__________________ | | Atreus Thyestes _________|__________ | | | | Agamemnon Menelaus Aegisthus (=Clytemnestra) (=Helen) (=Clytemnestra) _____|________________________ | | | Iphigenia Electra Orestes (Also, a sister of Agamemnon, name variously given, married Strophios, and was the mother of Pylades.) II. Tyndareus = Leda = Zeus ____________________| ____|_________________________ | | | | Clytemnestra Castor Polydeuces Helen P. 1, l. 10, Son of his father's foe.]--Both foe and brother. Atreus and Thyestes became enemies after the theft of the Golden Lamb. See pp. 47 ff.