Well, there is one shall find him.—See, they lead

Hither our Lord Tiresias, in whose mind

All truth is born, alone of human kind.

Enter Tiresias led by a young disciple. He is an old blind man in a prophet's robe, dark, unkempt and sinister in appearance.

Tiresias

Oedipus.

Oedipus.

Tiresias, thou whose mind divineth well

All Truth, the spoken and the unspeakable,

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The things of heaven and them that walk the earth;

Our city ... thou canst see, for all thy dearth

Of outward eyes, what clouds are over her.

In which, O gracious Lord, no minister

Of help, no champion, can we find at all

Save thee. For Phoebus—thou hast heard withal

His message—to our envoy hath decreed

One only way of help in this great need:

To find and smite with death or banishing,

Him who smote Laïus, our ancient King.

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