October 15, 2010

Charon

I see him there at the oars of his little boat in the lake,
the ferryman of the dead,
Charon, with his hand upon the oar,
and he calls me now: "What keeps you?
Hurry, you hold us back." He is urging me on
in angry impatience.

Euripides, Alcestis, 252-257